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by donaldo 1924 days ago
Good points, I completely agree with everything you brought up. Can you try to find data on electrical usage per hour of a series of centralized RDPs vs your computer?
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Random result: https://www.dataspan.com/blog/data-center-cooling-costs/

>According to research, anywhere between 30 and 55 percent of a data center’s energy consumption goes into powering its cooling and ventilation systems

Meanwhile the cooling cost for a computer in a home is probably zero.