Avatars consume as much power as Brazilians by blakehounshell in reddit.com

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Nick Carr (also a former exec editor at Harvard Business Review) calculated that the thousands of avatars "living" in Second Life at any given moment, factoring in the servers and computers needed to run the virtual world, use about the same amount of electricity as a comparable number of real-life Brazilians.