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The light went on for school officials last year.

With more than 12,000 computers in use by New Hanover County school students, teachers and staff, keeping them on overnight was probably costing a pretty penny.

So they decided to implement a program that switches off all of the district’s computers at 6:15 p.m. unless an operator signals otherwise.

Although planning for the program was put into place before saving money in a tight budget environment became the name of the game, the move is expected to save the district a lot of green. It also is helping the schools become more green.

“We’re trying to be more environmentally friendly, operate in a more green manner, and this is one way, a fairly simple way, that we can do that,” said Jonathan Allen, the schools’ director of technology.

It’s always great to see how people have benefited from adopting green IT, simply by switching their computers overnight has enabled this school to reduce it’s energy costs, which is always very cool. One of the indirect benefits is also that the pcs should be healthier as they are rebooted, which should reduce those low memory, update failed messages. An interesting read, do check it out.

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