GreenerComputing News reports:
Nearly half of all corporate PCs in the US are not regularly switched off at night, costing US businesses $1.72 billion in energy and causing emissions of 14.4 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to recently released PC Energy Awareness report.
That’s an amazing statistic! You’ve heard the “Reduce, Renew, Offset” mantra here before - but it’s reports like this that demonstrate why the “Reduce” component is so important - and it’s reasonably easy to do.
In the comments of our Get off standby action I did the math to work out how much more power is used in sleep mode than when turned off overnight (and then rebooted in the morning) and it’s more than 20 times the electricity required.
So that 14.4 million tons could be reduced dramatically if this simple measure becomes commonplace. How awesome!
So how can we make it happen? What are the barriers to businesses turning off their computers at night and how can they be overcome?
If you have any ideas, leave a comment…
Phenomenal figure.
At my old place of work the reason for leaving them on over night was for updates. If you turned it off, you’d still get the update in the morning. Now I’m not sure if turning all the computers in an organisation off for the night would cause problems for updates but other than that, I can’t see why they’d be left on.
Phil.