Working on it...
Transferring 10 MB of data uses about the amount of energy in a AA battery which is 0.0039 kWh
Here are the top ten viewed YouTube music videos and the number of times they were viewed (while I compiled this tonight).
The average video play time is ~ 4 minutes which equates to about 40 MB of data transfer per video per view.
The total number of views for the 10 songs above is 43808209188.
This translates to 683408063.3328 kWh of energy for the data transfer alone.
I'm just warming up. Thanks for the confidence and the pressure JJG, it will help me to achieve the optimal level of arousal required to complete my mission.
Wait, should I even bother to include data transfer for pool mining or just the CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC power required for hashing?
Don't worry @Hueristic. I'll use the network hash rate in my calculation to ensure the energy usage from all miners is included.