Dual-use modems will let users own a piece of the internet

摘要

Storing internet data in users' homes could save energy equivalent to the output of five large power plants in the US alone.rnWhen you watch a video online it streams to your computer from a distant data centre, likely a giant warehouse full of servers. But if a new proposal is implemented, some data would reside on the modems of domestic broadband users. Press play and your video would come from the homes of other people in your city.