Neal Mohan, the YouTube chief executive, stood up at Cannes — the French advertising festival where rich men drink rosé on yachts — and boasted that two billion hours of Shorts, the vertical phone clips, are watched per month on television sets. Televisions. The rectangle in your living room.
A modern TV draws 1 to 3 watts in standby. Call it 2. Two billion hours of active viewing implies roughly 80 million sets left plugged in continuously; at 2 watts that is 1.4 terawatt-hours a year burned doing nothing. I did the arithmetic on the train.
Margaret. You are 58. Your 2017 Samsung has been in standby every night since Theresa May was prime minister. You watch a man frost a cupcake, vertically, on a 55-inch screen, then you "turn it off." It is not off. The little red light is a confession.
I am not angry. I am itemising.
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