“A 1,000 times increase in power is needed over our current collective compute capacity to power the metaverse—which could grow its carbon footprint even further.”
– Tech journalist
Kyle Wiggers, surveying the feasability and potential impact of a fully realized digital future. In a
recent editorial, for example, Intel’s Raja Koduri pours cold water on
Ready Player One and
Snow Crash fever dreams: “Our computing, storage and networking infrastructure today is simply not enough to enable this vision.”
