IT Admins Need To Power Down PCs

IT Admins Need To Power Down PCs

A report by analyst firm Forrester has concluded that IT support managers must manage PCs differently if they are to cut power usage and hit green targets.
According to thinktank The Climate Group, PCs account for three times as much power consumption and carbon generation as datacentres, and very little attention has been paid to how to use computers more efficiently.



For example, powering down PCs at night and over the weekend can save a company between $25 and $75 per PC over a year. Washington Mutual, General Electric and Dell claim savings of $3m per year, $2.5m per year and $1.8m per year, respectively, by doing this.

Screensaver are not an effective technique of power saving. A graphics-heavy screensaver can instead increase the amount of power the computer uses.