data centers at just under thirteen terawatt alice that s about as much energy as the city of berlin uses in an entire year. or the amount of off shore energy that s produced in the boat called no seeing. these numbers will increase perhaps by as much as twenty five percent over the next five or six years. yes woman but not of all. visitors to the trade fair contest augmented or virtual reality technology and find out more about the latest developments in robotics. this technology will soon be available just about everywhere and it too will require a lot of energy. towards increasingly larger data centers we call the hyperscale facility. there is because several football fields consume
monitor the room temperature and even the carbon dioxide levels he said that we have the same interface on our mobile phone so we can change the settings even when we re not homeless hostels. worldwide data transfer traffic doubles every eighteen months and the next big boom is already underway. here at the annual high tech industrial trade fair in hanover a lot of people are excited about industry four point zero which is shorthand for automation and data exchange in manufacturing technology. falcon to man is a senior researcher at the berlin based porter step institute. this woman the internet s consumption of electricity is growing by leaps and bounds. that s true in part to the huge amount of data transfer. here at the trade fair you can see that all of the machines are outfitted with sensors that collect data continuously. right now in germany our energy requirements for the internet and
north we didn t need for data center capacity that is quite a lot. two hundred megawatts is. twenty times a large data center today. that would easily suffice to meet the energy requirements of a modern urban center. and there s plenty of room for the data center to expand its modular storage concept. the facility is powered exclusively by locally produced renewable energy and its cooling system makes it extremely energy efficient. the key element in the cooling system is water from the nearby fjord. since the
more than half of the world s population uses the internet whether on the move at home or at work we re constantly connected often for hours on end. and feel how life is online. and you re only as smart as your wife i connection huge amounts of data travel across the internet and that uses a lot of energy the future isn t digital and that future needs storage space. i mean the data is doubled every year and this they can use to sit some are the digital age is powered by millions of servers stored in giant in largely unseen data centers it s all we need to map out how we re going to make the digital revolution sustainable and contain its environmental impact.