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Do Any Companies Power Down at Night?

Posted by Soulskill on from the when-else-can-employees-run-their-torrents dept.

An anonymous reader writes "My Health Sciences Campus has about 8,000 desktop computers, and on any given night about half of them are left on. I know this because I track all the MAC addresses in case there is a virus outbreak. Aside from the current fad of 'being green', has anyone had any success in encouraging users to power-down at night? You could potentially eliminate running bots, protect yourself from the next virus outbreak, keep your data safe, etc. Do security concerns and power consumption issues matter enough to do this?"

3 of 646 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Good idea! by fotoflo · · Score: 5, Funny

    The top three "energy efficiency" people are the people taht never show up for work and leave their computers off all the time.

  2. Re:Common wisdom by Improv · · Score: 5, Funny

    False certainty characterises a bit too much of dialogue on the internet, I think, and makes it hard to be careful and humble in discussion. If I felt more sure of what I were saying, I'd have phrased it differently :) Presumably :P

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  3. Re:Aside from being green... by Wordsmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm against anyone working after 2 p.m., myself.