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To: Tommaso who wrote (81588)	12/13/2000 3:44:25 PM
From: Think4Yourself	Respond to of 95453

The PC's you and I use don't use much power. Internet Server PC's tend to use a lot more power because they are faster, have a lot more memory, have more disks (which are always spinning), have network cards, etc. Then there are the modems, routers, gateways, and repeaters of the gigantic network that is growing by the day. When you put up large farms of these machines, such as web hosting sites, they generate so much heat that you also have to add power hungry cooling systems. You are using electricity to generate heat and you are using electricity to get rid of it. And these systems are running around the clock, 365 days a year. Run your air conditioner like that and I suspect you will notice it in your bills. Even disregarding this I can tell you with certainty that when I am running networking experiments on my private 5 computer network I see it in my monthly electric bill. I normally leave four machines off and only run the hub and fifth PC. It's odd you mentioned your refrigerator experience. The same thing happened to me last year. It's amazing how wasteful the older refrigerators are. I figure in 4-5 years my new larger, quieter, fridge pays for itself in the reduced electric bill.