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Comment by sokoloff

3 hours ago

Those aren’t the same unit.

“Everyone turned off their lights” relates to power.

“Power datacenters for one second” relates to energy.

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cwillu  3 hours ago

You dropped the time component from the first, so yes, the result is incomparable.

“Power spent on lighting worstations while vacant” is energy

  • Dr_Emann  3 hours ago

    I don't think so, "while vacant" is an infinite amount of time, if you look infinitely far into the future.

  • sokoloff  2 hours ago

    Assume that each workstation is lit by 100W of lighting and is vacant 18 hours per day (to make the math easy).

    I claim that's 75W of power that could be reclaimed by turning off a 100W load 75% of the time. Explain how you get to energy or how I dropped time, please.

    • cwillu  1 hour ago

      2400 watt hours in a day, being reduced to 600 watt hours.

      If you're not going to be charitable in interpreting comments, then perhaps this isn't the venue for you.

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