Setups can vary wildly from person to person, but as standard measurement, desktops with an ES score less than 250 made between January 1, 2019, and July 1, 2021, couldn’t use more than 50 kilowatt‐hours (kWh) per year. Desktops with an ES score of 251-425 needed to use less than 80 kWh, and those with an ES between 426-690 couldn’t go above 100 kWh per year (via The Register). After July 1, 2021, those energy allowances went to 50, 60, and 75 kWh, respectively.
In a 2020 report from the Semiconductor Industry Association, the power used for regular computer usage doubles every three years, but energy production worldwide only grows about 2% yearly. That does not consider all the high-end gaming gear, the sales of which have doubled in the last two years.
According to the Product Compliance Datasheet for the Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition, it used 563.01 watts when stressed and 66.29 watts when under short idle. It didn’t pass, and was thus why certain model R10s and R12s stopped selling in those six states. A fact that Dell stressed only applied to a few select configurations of Alienware Aurora computers across its entire lineup of gaming PCs (via The Register).
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