How much electricity does a pretend person need?
It might well be more carbon-conscious to have a meeting in Second Life than hopping on Upper Class to New York — if you can cope with the resulting increase in your business’s ‘naffness footprint’. But have you wondered at the ecological footprint of SL itself? Nicholas Carr has. His conclusion? An SL avatar consumes as much electricity as the average Brazilian, or, as a comment on his site notes,
that’s the equivalent of driving an SUV around 2,300 miles.
For comparison, the server that BST runs on — which also provides our email, websites and much more — consumes a bit less than half the power needed to maintain your average punky fetish elf in SL.
Draw your own conclusions.
[via the iDC mailing list]
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