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We’ve known for many years now that leaving devices running when we’re not using them is tantamount to taking your money and setting it on fire, and in the current cost of living crisis it’s more wasteful than ever. So it might surprise you to discover that a single setting in yourXbox Series Xcould be burning quite a lot of your cash.
It’s time to toggle your Xbox Series X to off
If you’re one of the million-plus UK people who bought the Xbox Series X before May, it’s time to get into settings: if you don’t, having your Xbox set to instant-on is costing you money you don’t need to spend. I mean, £60 to me is a meal out with a friend, a couple of tickets to a day out at a theme park, or money in the kitty for my next game purchase, so the idea of just tossing that away because of this setting being left on doesn’t appeal to me at all.
I’m not a big fan of “turn your microwave off and save £££!” articles because they’re often based on very old kit and very unrealistic usage patterns, so for example some of the figures I’ve seen for TVs' energy use aren’t based on thebest TVsbut appear to be modelled on CRTs from the previous century.
But equally I’m not a big fan of giving my wages to energy companies either. If you haven’t looked around your home with a critical eye to see what’s using power unnecessarily, this would be a really good time to do it.
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