Electricity cost savings

Today's server and workstation processors and memory are capable of far more speed than your average server and even desktop ever need. They consume hundreds of watts to sit idle 90% of the time, costing you or your company over $50.00/month, or $600.00/year to do very little, and that's just for an entry level server. If you have a low-end enterprise class server, it could be triple that. Cooling costs can double those numbers.

Real estate savings

Often overlooked is the fact that servers today consume so much power that the maximum number that can be installed in a rack is limited by the power budget of that rack. Add to that the cost of a colocation rack at an average of $800/month for a 40-amp rack, versus $500/month for a 15-amp rack, and the same savings potential of using low power Lopoco servers gets even higher.
You can safely put 33 Lopoco servers in a 15-amp rack, while you can only put between 6 and 12 conventional entry level servers in a 40-amp rack, which costs $300/month more than a 15-amp rack (average colocation per-rack price).

Lopoco v. conventional servers

An average Lopoco server uses about 30 watts at idle and 45 watts under load. That means you can install twice as many Lopoco servers in a 15-amp rack as you can conventional entry level servers in a 40-amp rack. Even if Lopoco servers only perform at 50% of the throughput of a conventional server, price/performance is better with Lopoco servers when you factor in the cost of a 15-amp rack v. a 40-amp rack or the raw cost of the power in your own data center, IT closet or lab.

Summary

It's almost a no-brainer: with Lopoco servers, you can save on your electric and/or colo bill while using less racks to build out your server needs.

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