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Global trends in internet traffic, data centres workloads and data centre energy use, 2010-2020

Last updated 4 Nov 2021

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Based on Cisco (2015), The History and Future of Internet Traffic; Cisco (2018), Cisco Global Cloud Index; Cisco (2019b), Cisco Visual Networking Index; Masanet et al. (2020), Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates; TeleGeography (2021), Global Internet Geography.

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