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Marko Karppinen Jun 24, 2024

Netflix can now serve 100Gbit/s of video (so something like 12,500 individual 4K streams) with an appliance using 100 watts of power. That’s 8 milliwatts for each 4K stream.

Remember that number the next time someone tells you that watching a Netflix show is as bad as driving an SUV or some shit.

https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/OpenFest2023.pdf

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Cassandrich Jun 24, 2024

@karppinen That's true, but the actual externalized cost of streaming is the network route between Netflix and you, not their servers.

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Andy Gocke

@dalias @karppinen So the externalized cost of streaming is... internet access? If that's true, this doesn't seem like an interesting topic. No one's giving up internet access, or suggesting others should give it up.