Questioning 5G with power consumption is an ignorant joke.

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1. If people's network demand for a better life of 5G has increased by 1 times and 1 times, while the power consumption of the entire 5G industry has only increased by 2 times, can we still say that 5G is a high-energy industry?

2. In order to save energy and reduce emissions, can we never watch full HD or 4K movies again? Or don't allow fancy special effects in games such as the glory of the king to avoid running more traffic? Or the online class model that we have become accustomed to, these will not and cannot be "saved".

I don't know when the high energy consumption of 5G has been widely recognized by the public. In short, 5G consumes electricity!

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Is this really the case?

Looking at the textbook, china communications standards association's data shows that at present, the main equipment of the 5G base station of telecom operators consumes about 2.22.3kW in no-load and 3.73.9KW in full load, which is about three times as much as that of a 4G single station. The resulting electricity bill problem has become one of the pain points in the development of 5 G.

roughly, even with the help of energy-saving technologies such as AI, the energy consumption of 5G base station is further optimized, and the energy consumption of 5G base station is twice that of 4G base station, so it is estimated that it has not run.

under the background of technology upgrading in all walks of life, it is difficult to meet the industrial upgrading method of directly doubling power consumption. Doesn't this mean that 5G consumes too much electricity?

you can't! Because when people talk about the 5G industry, they often ignore the most important key point-the explosive growth of demand and application. If people's network demand for a better life in 5G has increased by 1 times and 1 times, while the power consumption of the whole 5G industry has only increased by 2 times, then can we still say that 5G is a high-energy industry?

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forgetting the history of communication development is a betrayal of 5G.

think back to the 2G era 2 years ago, when people could only make calls by mobile phones, but what was the 2G base station like at that time? In fact, the equipment of 2G base stations is bigger than that of 5G. Each base station should be equipped with a computer room, and various communication equipment are placed on the rack of 1 meter to 2 meters. In order to ensure the temperature and humidity requirements of the base station computer room, the air conditioner runs 24 hours a day ... From any point of view, the power consumption level of 2G era is not lower than that of 5G.

from 2G, 3G, 4G to the 5G era, the information interaction capability provided by wireless communication for the whole society has increased by hundreds of thousands and millions of times, but the growth of power consumption is very limited, so the development of wireless communication represented by 5G is not only based on high energy consumption.

We should never avoid the explosive growth of people's demand for information. Think back to the past 2 years, when people didn't expect faster network speed. The iterative development of wireless network has brought mankind to an unprecedented new height, and all mankind are enjoying the benefits of the new wireless era.

There is no doubt that we need 5G, or more advanced wireless communication technology. 5G is a very precious and rare technical standard in human industry. At the moment when Moore's Law is "semi-stopped", the development of wireless communication technology still shows no signs of stopping.

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when 5g comes, it won't leave. Our appetite for data consumption is growing, and it is undoubtedly an idiotic dream to save energy by curbing people's vigorous demand for 5G. In order to save energy and reduce emissions, can we never watch full HD or 4K movies again? Or don't allow fancy special effects in games such as the glory of the king to avoid running more traffic? Or the online class model that we have become accustomed to, these will not and cannot be "saved".

pave the way first, then get rich. The development of communication infrastructure has always been ahead of the development speed of applications and industries for so many years. 5G represents faster speed, higher connection reliability and the interconnection of everything. This is the universal truth of the evolution of wireless communication technology and the inevitable direction of developing 5G.

the limited growth of 5G power consumption is completely out of proportion to people's almost unlimited demand for wireless communication. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and neither is 5g. When you want to speed up a car from 1km/h to 1km/h, it is almost impossible and unscientific not to increase power consumption.

Maybe 5G has stopped its progress in the current application scenario. It seems that people haven't discovered the changes of 5G to life and society for the time being, but the vision of 5G and the vision of human technology development have not changed. 5G will surely be just an important stop on the way forward.

Of course, although 5G is not a high energy consumption industry, it should follow the principle of "moderately ahead" in the development process to avoid the phenomenon that it runs too fast, and China plants trees while other countries enjoy the cool.

But it must be an ignorant joke to question 5G with power consumption.

Editor/Hao Junhui Kicked Sister

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