Numbers

I was wondering about the numbers involved in creating a life-size Earth in Second Life, so I did some calculations. It would require 7,782,984 sims. That would cost $13,036,498,200 (13 billion) initially, and then $2,295,980,280 (2 billion) a month or $27,551,763,360 (27 billion) a year. Assuming each sim is run on a separate computer, that would be about 18,834,821 kWh of electricity. If Linden Labs became it's own US state, it would be ranked 36th (above New Mexico and below Idaho) in electricity consumption. The current size of SL is about 1/5 the size of Rhode Island. If SL continues to grow at the rate it grew between July and August 2007, it will reach the size of the Earth in 711,149 years. By that time, there will be 501,087,718,847 residents, so probably about 3,276 unique users.