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Had to shorten the title as it couldn't fit normally.

Britain could be forced to introduce internet rationing, after an expert warned it could consume the country’s entire power supply within 20 years.

Experts said we were close to “filling up” the nation’s network of optical fibres for the first time ever, with the demands of popular video-streaming websites like YouTube and Netflix putting an unprecedented strain on communications infrastructure.

Industry figures will be meeting at London’s Royal Society later this month to discuss the impending “capacity crunch” facing Britain’s internet companies, and experts said that with devices such as PCs and TVs included, internet transmission already accounts for between 8 and 16 per cent of Britain’s power.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scienc...22638.html

I wish I was making this up.