Power impact of debufferbloating

to a small extent, the IP stack on your endpoint device can be considered such a router as it aggregates the traffic from all your applications, but the biggest problem of large buffers is where you transition from a fast network to a slow one.

in many cases this is going from the high speed local network in someone's house to the slow DSL link to their ISP

I also think that you are mistaken if you think that any computers send a large number of packets to the network device and then shift to a low power state while the packets are being transmitted. usually shifting to such a low power state ends up powering off the network device as well.

servers almost never do something like this because as soon as they are done working on one request, they start working on another one.

shifting power states is a slow and power hungry process, it's not done frequently and on reasonably busy servers seldom takes place