The Horse 2019/20

Technology & Environment

Calculation

Helo everyone

The calculation of how much energy we can save if we would increasingly share video games is as follows: If we assume that 400,000 people in Switzerland use a PS4 or similar and that the download for one gigabyte takes 0.06 kilowatt hours , everyone has an average of 300 GB on their Playstation, the download comes with a power consumption of around 7,000,000 kWh. This does not even include other things as the server's power consumption for example. We believe that sharing video games could save at least a third. That means we would save about 2’300’00 kWh. By the way: Around 60,000,000 kWh of electricity is consumed in Switzerland each year for video games. And that if you only use the PS4 on average for one hour a day.

Kind regards,

Deia and Rezon

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  • Eliane Suter

    5/8/2020 11:01:15 AM | Reply

    Where are the numbers from? Please add the sources you used or tell the reader if you did a rough guess yourself, etc.

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