| The US PC Energy Report 2007 detailing the results from the research (available for download below) reveals some staggering findings: |
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Out of 104 million office PCs in the US, at least 31.2 million are left on all night. |
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Turning off every work computer in the United States every night would save as much CO2 emissions as taking every car in the state of Maryland off the road. |
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The simple step of shutting computers down each night can save a 10,000 PC enterprise more than $165,000 a year in energy costs. Across the US, this adds up to more than $1.72 billion dollars and almost 15 million tons of CO2 emissions. |