@article{koomey2021internet,
title={Does not compute: Avoiding pitfalls assessing the Internet's energy and carbon impacts},
author={Koomey, Jonathan and Masanet, Eric},
url={https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435121002117},
urldate={2024-08-10},
DOI={10.1016/j.joule.2021.05.007},
volume={5},
ISSN={2542-4351},
number={7},
journal={Joule},
publisher={Elsevier {BV}},
year={2021},
month={07},
day={21},
pages={1625--1628},
annote={Quote: "Although data traffic increased by more than 3-fold since 2016, network energy use dropped by 2.4\% (Telefonica) and 50\% (Cogent) over the same time period, demonstrating that historical network energy use is not directly proportional to data traffic. Notably, Telefonica's data traffic jumped by 45\% in 2020 due in part to COVID (compared to 2019), with no reported increase in network energy use. Cogent's electricity use dropped 21\% from 2019 to 2020 even as data traffic increased 38\%."},
}