Small Cell and 5G Wireless is An Energy Monster!!!

If Montgomery County cares about energy efficiency then why aren't they taking the time to consider the energy insanity of the currently proposed small cell 5G roll out? 

Wired systems are significantly cheaper and better for the planet than wireless systems when all costs are considered. For instance, wired systems are more energy-efficient. Energy consumption in communication networks is “growing at an unsustainable rate—possibly doubling every two years—with the biggest culprits being data centers and (most significantly) wireless access networks.”

A 2017 report by Dr. Anders Andrae of Huawei, “Total Consumer Power Consumption Forecast,” concludes that emissions from electricity consumption are predicted to increase significantly unless great efforts are put into power-saving features. Without dramatic increases in efficiency, communications technology could use 20% of all electricity and emit up to 5.5% of the world’s carbon emissions by 2025. This would be more than is currently emitted by any country except the U.S., China, and India. Dr. Andrae states:

The situation is alarming...We have a tsunami of data approaching. Everything which can be is being digitalised. It is a perfect storm. 5G [the fifth generation of mobile technology] is coming, IP [internet protocol] traffic is much higher than estimated, and all cars and machines, robots and artificial intelligence are being digitalised, producing huge amounts of data which is stored in data centres.

Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025, The Guardian (Dec. 11, 2017).