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Re:Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic by padde on Friday August 21, 2020 @06:10AM (#24233587)
It would be interesting to have an estimate of the energy consumed (globally) by this Chrome/Chromium feature...
Re:Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic by jeffbee on Friday August 21, 2020 @12:44PM (#24236494)
I'm curious why you think this might be significant. All global root server traffic amounts to < 1gbps. Under contrived conditions you could easily serve it all from a single laptop computer, but even if we assume that realistically it's being served by a large, distributed collection of servers each drawing ~250 W continuously and each housed in one of those ridiculous corporate datacenters with a PUE over 2.0, you're still looking at a global energy cost comparable to one tankful of motor fuel per day, or much less than the energy used by one single commercial airplane.