ir. L. Weedage (Lotte)

EERI - Energy Efficient and Resilient Internet

The Internet forms the backbone of the world's most crucial services, ranging from education to healthcare and from transportation to communications. Given its critical role in the continuity of everyday services, it is paramount to understand and improve the resilience of the internet. In contrast to the general perception that this critical infrastructure is always there and would continue to serve its users under all circumstances, unfortunately, this may not hold due to outages that were once considered very unlikely, e.g., targeted cyberattacks or severe climate events resulting in failure of energy resources. Besides its resilience, energy consumption of the internet is of great concern; it accounts for 10% of global energy consumption, which is expected to rise to more than 20% by 2030. With increasing dependency on digital services, improving energy efficiency at all levels - from hardware to software and from simple IoT devices to sophisticated network infrastructures- becomes paramount to decrease the energy footprint of the internet and to increase its resilience against possible energy outages.