An order-of-magnitude bound on the electricity used by automated web traffic, and an account of why public data supports no single figure. Two methods, both reported, disagreeing by a factor of 5.3 around roughly 10 TWh per year. Python 3, standard library only. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20512703
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