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Comment Re:3 page "paper" not all that insightful. (Score 1) 107

Moreover the idle power of systems vs. under normal load can be three to one.

Besides failover there are "swing" servers where virtual machines or services are migrated while upgrades done elsewhere. There are "staging" servers that become busy while new software being rolled out but might otherwise be idle for months.

Note the power draw of an idle server can be a third or less what the normal load is.

The twats that wrote this paper obviously aren't in the business.

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