Comment Re:Throw the book... maybe literally at him. (Score 3, Insightful) 220
well, most likely the computers werent being used for anything else at the time. he was probably only running it in spare time.
Using close to 100% of processing resources would definitely increase overall power consumption for the computers in question. This would result in increased overall cost of operation.
And yet still less wasteful of money and resources than the vast majority of university administrators.