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.
@wolfgang @karppinen The standardised test in both the US and Europe is WLTP, which is unrealistically gentle, but for a SUV at about 20kWh/100km and the average WLTP speed of 46.5km/h is 9.3kW. Which is more than a million times higher than the Netflix stream.
So a million people need to stream Netflix for that box to consume as much power as one SUV going an average of 46.5km/h (about 30 mph). Gently.
Marko Karppinen
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