My office when everything is off consumes 7w total.
That's 2 high end computers, 3 monitors in sleep mode, 2 phone chargers a laptop charger.
7w is more than tolerable for me
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Yeah both the monitors and computers will consume a bit. Even a modern PC when turned off is in a type of deep sleep mode, for stuff like wake on LAN.
The chargers will hardly even register anything, except maybe in some rare case where its a special one that is doing some sort of passive listening (like the PC's)
I think my monitors are rated at 0.5w each
I actually think the biggest drain are the power strips with built in USB adapters. Maybe 1w each
A good rule of thumb is that the energy needs to go somewhere. So if the adapter was drawing a significant amount of power, it would get warm to the touch.
They do consume a tiny little bit. I have a Measurement thingy that yoj plug between your outlet and whatever is plugged in which is accurate to 0.1 W. I tryed 3 chargers, one shows 0.1 W, the other two show 0.0 . I still know they consume a tiny bit, but less than 0.1 W is almost nothing. 0.1 W would come out to a consumtion of 0.876 kWh over a year, wich costs me 0.30 €.