DAMN that’s a big number.

Scientific America, says that US workers waste $2.8 billion annually in energy costs by failing to shut off their PCs. This stat is actually take from the 2009 PC Energy Report, a report done by 1E that shows findings on computer energy usage in the UK, US and Germany. The report also states that PCs and monitors account for 29% of all the IT industry’s emissions, which is equal to 43.9 million cars.

I guess the lesson here is to turn off your computers at night. But I leave my computer on forever. The only time I turn it off is if I know I’m not going to be using it the next day, which is almost never. I don’t turn it off cause I don’t like waiting for it to turn on. Sometimes I’ll put it into sleep mode, which is like half turning off your computer, but I’ve been running Windows 7 lately and the beta has some problems with sleep and hibernation so I’ve just been leaving it on.

Screw the environment.