It doesn't matter if someone's in the same system as the POB or if there isn't a single person online -- that's 84 instances of POBs ranging from core 1 to core 4, each doing a whole set of stuff, each adding to the server load, each increasing lag a tiny bit.
This is wrong and harmful to the server.
Something needs to be done about this.
EDIT: Something that doesn't involve deleting a potentially cool feature like POBs altogether.
EDIT2: As of 3pm pacific time on January 19th, there are now 85 POBs up.
