Question: how much power does 5g use?
Answer: The power consumption of 5G equipment in 3.5GHz, with 64T64R and massive MIMO, will be "300% to 350%" of a 4G basestation, it says. It says a cellsite today deploying 2G, 3G and 4G in five different bands will on average consume 5.9kW in power, with a peak of 7.3kW.