New Photovoltaic System Will Supply Power for Cloud-Based Data
The system will help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reward small producers
Simple actions, such as sending an email or saving a photo to the cloud, when multiplied by all the users in the world, account for 200 TWh. To get an idea of these figures, total power consumption in Spain in 2020 was 250 TWh, according to figures from Red Eléctrica de España, the corporation that operates the national electricity grid.
A team of researchers from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya has designed a prototype to allow any person whose roof receives direct sunlight to install a photovoltaic system in their home and become a potential supplier of computing power.