Where in the world are you getting the numbers for how much video streaming uses energy? I am quite sure that just as with LLMs, most of the energy goes into the initial encoding of the video, and nowadays any rational service encodes videos to several bitrates to avoid JIT transcoding.
Networking can’t take that much energy, unless perhaps we are talking about purely wireless networking with cell towers?
Networking can’t take that much energy, unless perhaps we are talking about purely wireless networking with cell towers?