Taking a look at cord cutting from a power perspective about 13% of your electric bill is tied to consumer electronics. Another side benefit of cutting the cord/dsl and trying to do everything out of a smartphone is a much lower power footprint.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/...epmt_5_6_a

That is the average cost by state. Below I have consumer electronics at 10.5 kw/H listed.

Set Top Box => 93.81 per year in electric
Desktop PC 24hr usage => 87.61 per year in electric
90W 55" TV 24hr usage => 82.79 per year in electric
60W Laptop Computer normal 24hr usage => 55.19 per year in electric
Wifi Router 24 hour usage => 5.52 per year in electric
5W 24 hour Cell Phone Charging => 4.38 per year in electric
Printer 30 minutes a day usage => 0.77 per year in electric

http://energyusecalculator.com/

What this is showing is that its a lot more power efficient to run your home entertainment out of a cellphone and go to occasional use for TV and Laptop. Its possible to save up to 25 dollars a month in electricity by doing it that way.

Article on smartphone energy consumption. iphone is the lowest but all cellphones are super low relative to PCs.

https://lifehacker.com/5948075/how-much-...our-budget

Gaming doubles the energy consumption of any desktop or laptop. An electricity cost that can be avoided by gaming on the cell phone which is like a 1.50 per year in electric if you only charge it overnight when you are sleeping.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/artic...-of-energy