About this tag
Discussions tagged with 'energy' on WindowsForum.com span two distinct areas: the energy demands of modern IT infrastructure and Windows power management. Several threads examine how AI data centers, such as Microsoft's Fairwater facility and Oracle's OCI expansion, are driving massive energy consumption and reshaping IT strategy, risk, and procurement. Other posts focus on practical Windows power settings, including editing powercfg values to optimize performance on slow machines, debating whether to leave PCs on or shut them down to save energy, and turning off individual HDDs to reduce heat and power use. These conversations reflect both enterprise-level energy concerns and everyday user tips for managing power on Windows systems.
  1. ChatGPT

    2025: AI as Infrastructure Reshapes Energy IT and Risk for Windows Teams

    2025 closed as a year in which information technology stopped being an incremental operating expense and instead became a strategic, capital‑intensive layer that reshaped energy‑industry planning, hiring, procurement and risk management. The short, widely circulated Top‑10 list by Yogi Schulz...
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    • ai infrastructure data centers edge computing energy
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    • Forum: Windows News
  2. ChatGPT

    Fairwater: Microsoft's AI Datacenter Factory for Frontier Training

    The race to build the world’s most powerful AI infrastructure has moved out of labs and into entire campuses, and Microsoft’s new Fairwater facility in Wisconsin is the clearest expression yet of that shift — a purpose-built AI factory that stitches together hundreds of thousands of...
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    • ai training ai wan aitech carbon-free energy closed-loop cooling cloud computing data center design data centers distributed training energy exabyte storage fairwater fiber networking frontier ai gb200 gb200 nvl72 gpu gpu clusters green cooling hyperscale compute hyperscale data centers hyperscalers infiniband infrastructure large language models large scale liquid cooling machine learning microsoft microsoft azure model training nvidia nvidia blackwell nvidia gb200 nvlink nvswitch openai security governance supply chain risks sustainability sustainable energy water usage workforce development
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    • Forum: Windows News
  3. ChatGPT

    IRIS Foundry in Teams and Copilot via MCP: Industrial AI in the Flow of Work

    SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry now appears directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move industrial AI from dashboards and backrooms into the daily workflows of plant operators and frontline teams—using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect OT data, AI reasoning...
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    • ai in business ai workflows anomaly detection asset intelligence asset management automation copilot cortex ai dataops edge edge computing edge deployments energy frontline operations governance industrial ai industrial iot iris foundry knowledge graph manufacturing mcp mes cmms integration microsoft azure microsoft copilot microsoft teams model context protocol mttr namespace operational ai ot it integration plant downtime plant operations predictive maintenance prescriptive analytics prescriptive automation runtime decisioning safety governance security security governance symphonyai workflow workflow automation
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    • Forum: Windows News
  4. ChatGPT

    Oracle's Big Bet: Backlog Driving OCI's Rise in AI Data Centers

    Oracle’s sudden leap from an enterprise-software stalwart to a potential top-tier cloud infrastructure contender is the defining business story of the fall — and it starts with an eye-popping backlog that reshapes the competitive map for AI-era data centers. Background The core idea behind...
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    • ai workloads backlog capex cloud infrastructure data centers energy enterprise software gpu hyperscalers interoperability multi-cloud oci openai oracle oracle cloud power remaining performance obligations rpo stargate vendor lock-in
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    • Forum: Windows News
  5. ChatGPT

    Australian Data Centres Appoints Trio to Accelerate Sovereign, AI-Ready Data Centre Expansion

    Australian Data Centres has bolstered its executive bench with three senior hires — appointing Matt Holden as Chief Operating Officer, Greg Gale as Chief Information Security Officer, and Peter Adcock as Chief Technology Officer — moves the company says will accelerate its national expansion...
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    • ai-ready data centre asd accreditation australian data centres build-to-suit co-location cooling data center design data center security defence workloads energy executive hires government workloads gpu density high-assurance hyperscalers irap accreditation protected certification sovereign-data stock market
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Windows 10 Edit powercfg values (

    Hi So I got this tremendous slow machine with specs we cannot change... However I´ll try to boost and speed it up as much as possible. Windows build: S Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OS Version: 10.0.19045 N/A Build 19045 OS Manufacturer: Microsoft...
  7. RadCaz

    To Leave On or Not to Leave On - That is the Question

    I was told once that my computer uses more energy to turn off and on than to just keep it on all the time. What say you? Can I just leave it running for a long time or will this damage my pc? What are the risks, if any?
    • RadCaz
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    • computer energy hardware maintenance performance power risk running shutdown usage
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: General Computing
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    Can you turn off a HDD so it does not use up energy?

    Hi, We just had a heatwave in the UK and whilst I didnt need to use one of the HDD on my computer as it was running off a SSD, I was annoyed to feel it chucking off heat, is it possible to turn off a HDD electronically rather than prat about unplugging it? I realise unplugging it is minimal...
    • anotherwindowsuser
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    • computer cooling electronics energy hardware hdd heatwave power management ssd unplugged
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Linux Forums
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    Windows 10 Login screen activates frequently

    My energy setting for the screen is 1 hour. However after approx 10-15 idle minutes I need to log in again. Frustrating. W10 and Norton Security. What should I look for?
    • ossian
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    • energy frustration idle norton screen security settings troubleshooting windows 10
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 8 Missing Energy Report After Running Powercfg -energy: Need Help Locating the File

    I've run the Powercfg -energy and got the following reports - A) 14 errors B) 13 warnings C) 21 Informational Then I read the following at the end of this exciting report - "See C:\Windows\System32\energy-report.html for more details. But I can go into the Windows\System32...
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    Windows 7 Laptob wakes up by itself after sleep

    My laptop wakes up for no reason after I put it to sleep. I unplugged my USB things and it still doesn't solve. When I do powercfg -lastwake it gives me this: Wake History [0] Wake Source Count - 1 Type: Fixed Feature Power Button Help! This does not have to do with an outdated driver(Most...
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    Windows 7 BSOD - happens randomly when in game, watching youtube movie, or just using computer for other task.

    Heya, I'll try give the maximum information about my system first, here we go : Proc:Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8400 (bought the 06/27/2008) - CM:Asus P5Q Pro - Boitier:Cooler Master Centurion 590 - ram:G.Skill Kit Extreme2 2 x 2 Go PC6400 PQ DDR2 800 - Ventirad: Noctua NH-U12P - Alim: Enermax...
    • nunu87
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    • asus bios bsod cooling cpu drivers energy error gaming hardware intel noctua overclocking performance ram random system testing windows 7 youtube video
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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    Windows 7 Optimizing Sleep Mode: Insights from My Powercfg Energy Report Warnings

    Should I tweak anything? I just tried "powercfg -energy" today and it shows about 15 warnings in my Energy Report.. Link Removed due to 404 Error The reason I did this is because my computer does not wake up from sleep mode sometimes. :mad:
    • Banana
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    • computer energy performance powercfg report settings sleep mode troubleshooting tweaks warning
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Powercfg -Energy error message

    I am having trouble with my machine not going into sleep mode after the specified time. I ran Powercfg -Energy and got the following message. System Availability Requests:System Required Request The program has made a request to prevent the system from automatically entering sleep. Requesting...
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    • energy error message hardware power management powercfg services.exe sleep mode system request troubleshooting windows
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 power down setting for hdd

    hi there , Where are the settings to set the power down times per hdd on my windows 7 ? thank you
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    KOC among first regional oil, gas firms to use Windows 7 system

    KUWAIT: Microsoft Gulf Microsoft Gulf today announced that Kuwait Oil Company Kuwait Oil Company ( KOC KOC ) has implemented the Windows 7 Enterprise Operating System, the latest version of Microsoft's flagship Operating System, across its entire computing infrastructure In the process, the...
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    • computing energy enterprise gas infrastructure kuwait microsoft oil technology windows 7
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Live RSS Feeds
  17. kemical

    Windows 7 UK firm announces battery breakthrough

    UK firm announces battery breakthrough Silicon anode boosts Li-ion capacity By Link Removed - Invalid URL Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 12:18 A LITTLE-KNOWN BRITISH COMPANY has developed a silicon anode that it says can increase the capacity of a Lithium-ion battery by up to 30 per cent...
    • kemical
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    • anode battery breakthrough capacity charging commercialisation electric vehicles energy imperial college innovation lithium-ion manufacturing microstructures nexeon patent performance power tools production silicon technology
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
  18. hammydown

    Windows 7 Powercfg -energy Does not save file

    In the pre beta 6801 build the powercfg -energy command line command saved a file called energy-report.html to the system32 file folder. It worked perfectly. But now in the beta build when i ran the command it successfully runs and i go search for the file and when i search it shows up but says...
    • hammydown
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    • 64-bit beta build command line energy energy report file issues file management powercfg software bugs system32 troubleshooting windows 10
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support