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April 24, 2012

Thank Steve Jobs for Your Higher Energy Bills

Martin LaMonica, CNET News


CNET

Here's something you can thank Steve Jobs for: a fatter electricity bill.

A dive into the data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) spells out what many of us intuitively know: the explosion in the number of computer gadgets and TVs has dramatically shifted the balance of household electricity over the years.

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