http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/03/25/study-us-companies-waste-28-billion-annually-to-power-idle-pcs/ The Executive's Daily Green Briefing Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:02:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/03/25/study-us-companies-waste-28-billion-annually-to-power-idle-pcs/comment-page-1/#comment-116320 Tom Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:46:16 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=12371#comment-116320 The 2009 PC energy report has one major flaw. Turning the PC off each night requires booting the software each day - not a trivial amount of time. Allowing only 2 minutes of time to start the PC 4 days a week will incur a labor cost of $20 billion for the 108 million PC's that were mentioned in the report. Therefore businesses can save $2.8 billion in electricity if they are willing to lose an additional $18 billion in wages. That is calculated at an annual salary of $50,000 per year fully burdened with fringe benefits. IF it takes 10 minutes to start the PC and software the labor cost soars to over $100 billion!!! The 2009 PC energy report has one major flaw. Turning the PC off each night requires booting the software each day – not a trivial amount of time. Allowing only 2 minutes of time to start the PC 4 days a week will incur a labor cost of $20 billion for the 108 million PC’s that were mentioned in the report. Therefore businesses can save $2.8 billion in electricity if they are willing to lose an additional $18 billion in wages. That is calculated at an annual salary of $50,000 per year fully burdened with fringe benefits. IF it takes 10 minutes to start the PC and software the labor cost soars to over $100 billion!!!

]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/03/25/study-us-companies-waste-28-billion-annually-to-power-idle-pcs/comment-page-1/#comment-115959 Rich Casto Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:25:44 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=12371#comment-115959 Most employees are instructed to NOT turn off their computers so that automatic updates (e.g. antivirus, software and operating system patches) can run at night so as to not affect their work during business hours. Since most new(er) computers have energy-saving modes, the actual energy "waste" is not as much as estimated. Most employees are instructed to NOT turn off their computers so that automatic updates (e.g. antivirus, software and operating system patches) can run at night so as to not affect their work during business hours. Since most new(er) computers have energy-saving modes, the actual energy “waste” is not as much as estimated.

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