At Lopoco, what we do is make low power servers. A server is typified as a computer that's always on and provides a service to other computers, like web or email or database. The average server these days might use as much as 500 watts when idle. When busy, which is usually less less than 5% of the time, it might use more than 700 watts.
Lopoco servers achieve better than a 10:1 energy savings for the datacenter. An average Lopoco server uses about 25 watts at idle. And when fully loaded, it might use all of 60 watts. Yet, for most server applications, including web, email, file sharing, database and calendar, there is no noticeable difference in performance. If you're worried about how much energy your always-on servers are wasting, and costing, then give us a call.