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Do Any Companies Power Down at Night?
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?"
This is America, guy...
The risk of getting fired because you spend five to ten minutes getting your computer to boot in the morning is FAR more important than the waste of millions of kilowatt hours of electricity. People's HEALTH CARE, credit card payments, and mortgages depend on the whim of the corporate head office. When they need to lay-off the next round of 20000 employees to protect their own personal $20,000,000 performance bonus and golden parachute, they are going to look at things like whose PC boots on last in the office each morning in order to decide who to 'let go'.
Anyone in America who thinks something like saving energy is actually important has to be an under-30 recent grad or new hire. Forgive them, they don't have a clue about how things actually work in the corporate working world.