Always-on PCs waste $500 million a year

jmke · 27th June 2007, 10:14

A 1E PC Energy Report says that over 31 million US-based office PCs are left switched on all night, wasting over half a billion dollars a year in energy costs.

The report says that there are 104 million office PCs in the US, and that a 10,000 PC business could save over $165,00 a year in energy costs and 1,381 tonnes of CO2 emissions simply by switching them off overnight. Turning off every work computer in the USA every night would save as much CO2 emissions as taking every car in the state of Maryland off the road.

http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=9288

27th June 2007, 16:45

This bugs me, especially considering the wasted energy and environmental impact. However, we ask that people here at the office do leave their machines on at night so we can push out updates and perform remote maintenence, etc. Hrm.

jmke · 27th June 2007, 16:46

we push updates at 9am when they first boot their machine

Sidney · 27th June 2007, 17:11

Work hours in U.S. sucks

27th June 2007, 17:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wrigleyvillain

This bugs me, especially considering the wasted energy and environmental impact. However, we ask that people here at the office do leave their machines on at night so we can push out updates and perform remote maintenence, etc. Hrm.

My entire University does this simply because they can't get every single PC to "boot up" on command, or one boots up in the middle of an update and bad things happened. At least was the story I picked up...

Either way, it's over a few thousand computers if you consider 1) All the computer classrooms with 35-65 comps per room, several per floor, per building, 2) General student computing labs per department with ~100 PCs in most, 3) last but not least Faculty and classroom machines. And this almost gets doubled again because we have two separate campuses here.

And exlucding the Macs, all of these are using Pentium 4s or Pentium Ds.

27th June 2007, 18:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by lazyman

Work hours in U.S. sucks

You got that right, bub. Though we are owned by Publicis (France) now so the vacation time got better

27th June 2007, 18:52

Didn't Intel have something in their pocket for this problem?

27th June 2007, 10:14	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	Always-on PCs waste $500 million a year A 1E PC Energy Report says that over 31 million US-based office PCs are left switched on all night, wasting over half a billion dollars a year in energy costs. The report says that there are 104 million office PCs in the US, and that a 10,000 PC business could save over $165,00 a year in energy costs and 1,381 tonnes of CO2 emissions simply by switching them off overnight. Turning off every work computer in the USA every night would save as much CO2 emissions as taking every car in the state of Maryland off the road. http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=9288 __________________

27th June 2007, 16:46	#3
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	we push updates at 9am when they first boot their machine __________________

27th June 2007, 17:11	#4
Sidney Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15,738	Work hours in U.S. sucks __________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II

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27th June 2007, 16:45	#2
Wrigleyvillain Posts: n/a	This bugs me, especially considering the wasted energy and environmental impact. However, we ask that people here at the office do leave their machines on at night so we can push out updates and perform remote maintenence, etc. Hrm.

27th June 2007, 18:52	#7
Rutar Posts: n/a	Didn't Intel have something in their pocket for this problem?