[ale] Saving electricity with Linux

[Solomon Peachy]

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 12:43:39PM -0400, Bob Toxen via Ale wrote:
> Datacenters may use as much as 9% of total U.S. electricity in six years.
> Home computers use some too.
> 
> Since Linux uses roughly half the electricity as Windows, switching to Linux in the
> data centers will save a lot of electricity.  Get the treehuggers to champion this.

The overwhelming majority of the systems in datacenters are already 
running Linux.  So what you're saying is that, Linux is, by 
itself, responsible for nearly 9% of total US electrical consumption. [1]

...And I should point out that if you put Linux vs Windows on modern 
laptop harwdare, the odds are high that Windows actually uses less, both 
when on-but-otherwise-idle and in a suspended state.

(This is even more true when comparing Linux vs MacOS on Apple hardware)

[1] Excluding cooling, which can be up to half of that energy usage..

 - Solomon
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