RE: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

Of course, if he had local AC power available, it would kinda defeat one of the points of having PoE, which is to be able to put switches where there isn't a convenient AC drop to begin with.

But wait, there is more... Maybe you want your POE devices (like phones) to stay alive during a power failure, without having to put UPS's everywhere. And anything else that is POE (cameras, thermostats, etc)