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Originally Posted by benwaggoner
Coming to think of it, SW AV1 decoding is actually going to have an impact on global CO2 emissions. A CPU can easily draw 20 more watts in SW decode versus HW decode. 500K simultaneous YouTube viewers watching AV1 could be another 5 MWatt more power consumption and emissions than if YouTube used HEVC. Even assuming low-emissions NG plants, that would be around an extra megaton of global CO2 emissions an hour.
Yowza.
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Yikes. I can already see the headlines for laws being passed (in EU countries anyway)