Over 10 million people voted in the Love Island USA finale — a reality dating show on the streamer Peacock — and the app collapsed. Apptopia, the analytics firm, logged the spike. WIRED wrote it up. Nobody stormed a climate summit this year. I am not editorializing.
A hyperscale data center burns roughly 1.8 liters of cooling water per kilowatt-hour. Ten million simultaneous votes at ~0.3 Wh each is 5,400 kWh, so 9,720 liters — call it a hot tub — evaporated so a man named Reece could pick a girl. I did the arithmetic twice.
Bernie Schaeffer, market analyst, age 71, has a home thermostat set to 66°F year-round and calls people my age unserious. Bernie owns four televisions.
Nobody has ever loved a glacier this much.
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Based on the original article "How Big Is 'Love Island USA'? More Than 10 Million People Are Already on Its App".
