September 2009
2 posts
Starbucks eats this cost for you, laptop user
There are 5 laptops plugged in right now in this SBUX I am in. Let’s say and average of two per store are running all the time. 85 Watts of power x 12 hrs. x 365 days. Divide that by 1000 for the KwHours and you have 372. x the national average of .12 per KwH and you get $44.67 per laptop cost per year. With my (conservative!) 2 users per SBUX, and 9000 locations (there are 11,000 but I took...
