Re: [tlug] OT - Shutdown day

["Keith Bawden" <keith@example.com>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> Curt Sampson writes:
>   > On 2008-04-17 18:42 +0900 (Thu), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>   >
>   > > Last I heard 3% of the electricity in the Great State of California
>   > > was going for care and feeding of computers; that's a lot of $$$.
>   >
>   > I expect that more than half of that is air conditioning, actually.

I wonder what the effect of switching over to DC would do. I've
noticed that many vendors are sprouting this as the next big savior on
the power consumption and cooling front... Is this more marketing
speak or a real consideration?

Regards, Keith