Check out the upcoming ATX power consumption and compare it to what we're using currently...
What you said was true for a very long time, but Moore's law has slowed down a lot over the last 5yrs and power consumption has increased significantly, and is about to become unreasonable in my opinion.
Maximum power draw of 2.4 kw for about to 10% of the uptime is ... sadly going to be reality soon.
I don't think we've went through a circle of more then doubling the power consumption before, but I've only been paying attention to it since shortly before 2010, as I was using prebuilt systems before that.
Maybe you're right and more then doubling the power consumption is a normal thing that just occasionally happens.
What you said was true for a very long time, but Moore's law has slowed down a lot over the last 5yrs and power consumption has increased significantly, and is about to become unreasonable in my opinion.
Maximum power draw of 2.4 kw for about to 10% of the uptime is ... sadly going to be reality soon.