INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

A CPU of a printer requests a first external device to supply electric power via a first interface through communications according to the USB standard. When the CPU determines that the requested electric power is to be unsupplied from the first external device, the CPU requests a second external device to supply the electric power via a second interface.