>The fixed upfront equipment costs and carbon footprint do need to the factored in as well but they are not going to amount to much.
In the source I gave they actually _do_ factor in the equipment costs, and turns out it does amount to more than you think.
You can't ignore the fixed operational costs, because we're not asking what's the cost of sending a single incremental gigabyte. We're asking what's the cost of transferring data, today. Total energy divided by total data volume.
In the source I gave they actually _do_ factor in the equipment costs, and turns out it does amount to more than you think.
You can't ignore the fixed operational costs, because we're not asking what's the cost of sending a single incremental gigabyte. We're asking what's the cost of transferring data, today. Total energy divided by total data volume.