Quick! You need a factoid fast! Here’s one, what does the Internet weigh?
A statistically rough ( one sigma) estimate might be 75-100 million servers @ ~350-550 watts each.. Call it Forty Billion Watts or ~ 40 GW. Since silicon logic runs at three volts or so, and an Ampere is some ten to the eighteenth electrons a second, if the average chip runs at a Gigaherz , straightforward calculation reveals that some 50 grams of electrons in motion make up the Internet.
Thats the mass of a medium sized chicken egg.
[via eyebeam and collision detection]