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sokoloff 2 hours ago

Those aren’t the same unit.

“Everyone turned off their lights” relates to power.

“Power datacenters for one second” relates to energy.

cwillu 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

sokoloff an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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 12 minutes ago | parent [-]

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.

sokoloff 10 minutes ago | parent [-]

Uh... Watt-hours per day reduces to Watts in dimensional analysis, which is of course my original point.