This was the thing that jumped out at me! I'm not sure how the VSCode application interacts with these to potentially put them to sleep, but dang that is $$$ fo

This was the thing that jumped out at me! I'm not sure how the VSCode application interacts with these to potentially put them to sleep, but dang that is $$$ for a dev machine at the scale github is operating at. I guess lucky for them to be owned by Microsoft now and so that's just a cost of doing business. I have a hard time believing they could have even considered an approach like this if they were still paying for hardware out of pocket. Kudos to the team for figuring it out though.