"As an educational institution we do not support the search for E.T."

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by pdog

Bandwidth is not the main cost, it's running the CPUs at 100% for most of the day. A modern CPU at idle might consume 60 watts but at 100% take 160 watts. That 100w difference times 5000 machines makes for a big jump in the electricity bill. At 10c per kW/hr, that's $50/hr. If they were running 20 hrs a day, he was costing the district $1000/day.

I didn't even want to mention that possibility, as we then get into things like suspend and hibernation, which some places don't know enough to use.