This is after having tons of solar panels too LMAO
Lol…I hate my power bill.
Servers go Brrrrrr
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to memes@sopuli.xyz
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bajabound@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
cm0002@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Hmm I think you’re crossing into home datacenter territory.
I’ve got some rookie numbers to pump up LMAO
bajabound@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’d think I’d have a few racks of equipment running… most of that is heating and cooling. Old drafty farm house with old inefficient heat pumps. Winter was damn cold this year.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Whoa. A really bad month for me is 2500 kwh.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
My heat pump has used less than that since it was installed, in 2023…
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Why does the electricity company know your flat size and your heating source?
cm0002@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
In most places in the US, basic home specs are public record and/or just floating around since the last time it was publicly listed for sale
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I bet you can look at the building permit and learn this stuff
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Wow. That idea is definitely 2American4me…
(I also just posted it in the respective community, as it fits perfectly there…)
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Besides what others have said, they’d know the capabilities of the address when it’s built, at a minimum, as they’re responsible for providing the infrastructure to deliver power to it.
I really don’t get why you’re asking this - they need to know what a facility is capable of to manage and plan power delivery.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
they need to know what a facility is capable of to manage and plan power delivery.
But that’s a single value measured in Ampere.
The size in square feet is something completely irrelevant to know.
And even the Ampere value is only relevant for the local provider that connects to your house, not for the company selling you the actual electric energy.
The company selling me electricity knows nothing about me but my electric meter ID.
smh@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
(USA) My flat just had its tax assessment done and that includes the floor area, heating source, and other things like how fancy your kitchen is (mine is “standard”, btw). That tax assessment is available online to everyone.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Soooo… there are openly available public databases containing information on how fancy a kitchen you own…?
On one hand that’s completely hilarious.
On the other hand that’s frighteningly dystopian.To say it with the latest officially elected German youth word: “Das crazy.”
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
How many computers do you have?
kungen@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
I think they forgot to mention the huge tomato farm they have in their basement. Tons of lights and special ventilation setup. Tastes much better than what you can get at the grocery store of course.
cm0002@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
I call it the Tomacco. Not responsible if you feed it to animals
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Tomater
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tato: cross between a tomato and a potato.
cm0002@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
Like 3 or 4 1u/2u servers equipped with a couple GPUs, plus a tape library lol
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
It’s not obvious before you do the math but a 500 watt homelab is basically a large air conditioner. The AC is just on ⅓ of the time ½ of the year.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
All of them.
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
This thread makes me question my 2,000kWh power bill, I don’t have any servers and always shut down my main PC. I do use a laptop as a media center that I don’t shut down, but I figured it can’t be using that much power.
Maybe the main factor is me being in home office and using my PC about 12-14h a day? 😅
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m in a 1 bedroom with my fiancé, a home server, and our gaming rigs running for long portions of the day.
We use about 243kWh a day.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
243kWh per day is insane, even with three high powered rigs running. Are you sure your fiancé isn’t hiding a data center somewhere?!
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
You draw an average of constantly ~10kW? That is a crazy amount of power, how many gaming rigs/servers do you have to get that high
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
you still have halogen lights or worse?
If your heating system isn’t electric I really wonder how you do.
Otherwise: Hoven, electric kettle/toaster, dishwasher, washing machine, dryer are usually the most consuming devices
Wait, you’re talking monthly or yearly?
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
yearly, and I use LED light bulbs in the whole flat
I do haven an electric stove/oven, kettle, dishwasher and washing machine. Oh, and my warm tap water is also heated by electricity. Haven’t really considered those, but that’s definitely a good point, water takes tons of energy to heat after all
krisevol@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I use 2k a month in the summer, but i know its my hvac unit. On the winter or spring months i use 1200.
I don’t have solar but i do have two electric cars and 4 gaming PCs in a 4 person house.
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
No HVAC here, I have gas heating and the only thing resembling AC in my flat is a fridge lol
stuner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Uff…that’s close to my yearly electricity bill (including a home server/NAS). Energy consumption in the US is crazy.
YerbaYerba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What’s the idle power on your NAS? Less than 6 watts?
stuner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, not quite that low. It’s an x86 PC with multiple HDDs. It draws about 15W in idle, or about 130 kWh per year. It’s a substantial part of my electricity bill xD
Anivia@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Now imagine having home servers, (legal) weed grow tents, and and EV
FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did you try to size your solar panels to your usage or are you doing small scale solar?
I’ve been thinking about solar, but the prices are pretty harsh, especially without the federal credits.
cm0002@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
I don’t think I can get the amount of panels needed, as-is my system can produce about 700-800 watts in a good sunny month (which the month they used wasn’t really, it was Feb and it produced about 600-650)
But my electric company has some dumbass arbitrary limit on the amount panels the professional installers have to follow and I’m pretty sure I’m close to it
I’ve been meaning to check out this “unofficial” DIY plugin solar stuff, but haven’t gotten to it yet lol
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But my electric company has some dumbass arbitrary limit on the amount panels the professional installers have to follow and I’m pretty sure I’m close to it
This is what I faced too. The power company only allowed to install solar generation capacity 110% of my power consumption over the last 12 months. So we had to spent a year being very wasteful of electricity. That allowed me to put up panels covering the entire roof.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
had the same. now I’m running more with less.
got rid of my commercial grade servers and implemented consumer grade hardware that requires less power.
I was running four whole dell R series for a total of around 5kw of power (four devices x 1kw psu + redundant).
now I’m running two consumer grade servers with newer for efficient tech and smaller non-redundant psus. it should be sitting right around 1.2kw.
the newer hardware can easily run what used to take a dedicated R series.
next is to consolidate all my network infra.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I’m conducting experiments on temperal mechanics. I need ar least 1.21 Gigawatts.
cm0002@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
PLEASE get us out of the Biff timeline
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
While bleak and terrible, I still think Biff’s future would be less shitty than Trump’s.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
similar heating source
I highly doubt that, probably OP heating source are his servers
30p87@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
When the server alone is idling at 200W
hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I felt really bad about having a PC on all the time that consumed like 30-50 watts. Never mind I guess.
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
which is why i autosuspend my pc that’s also a jellyfin & smb server
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 weeks ago
Probably closer to 800W based on OP’s usage.
Routhinator@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Mine looks like this because Im the only one that has a heat pump on a street full of gas users
Bazell@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Someone’s still running a Bitcoin farm.
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Is this weekly or monthly? If monthly, where the hell are people using only 600 kwh a month?
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
if you have gas or wood as a heating system and no electric cars?
This month we have reach for the moment 398kWh, with quite a lot of powertools(compressor, woodworking equipment,…) , plus dryer/washers etc. But no electric heating/boiler, which is gas or wood.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I do, most of the time. A while back I tracked my monthly electricity usage and it ranges from 200-700kWh a month. That includes cooking, heating and hot water too, one of the first things I did when getting my house was move everything to electricity and get the gas disconnected.
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That’s surprising. I live in an area with no gas connections, so everything is electric. We average a little over 1000kwh a month every month.
I do live in a hot place so we rely on air conditioning a lot, maybe that’s the difference.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This is how you get cops busting through your door looking for a pot farm
cm0002@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Thankfully I’m in a legal state lol
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If you’re in the USA you still have the feds that could “legally” do the same.
picnic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah I had something similar when I had my 24U rack somewhat half occupied some years ago. Nowadays I have the same occasionally as I have two electric cars.
And I have a 10kWp solar system, too. So I can get by summertime with some <500kwh bills.
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Same here, but I run a projector and watch movies and play games on one wall of my room. I love being an irresponsible adult so much sometimes. :D
einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
330w is quite a lot for a projector, i assume thats a high pressure mercury lamp one?
I recently switched to a laser one and the picture is still as bright but the power consumption is down by over 50%.
Also after 2 times geting my face blasted by mercury vapors when the lamp exploded in the old one…i aint risking losing even more brain cells…there is a good reason the stopped selling those in the eu now
lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Yes, it’s an older model that still uses those old lamps. I will probably switch over to a laser projector when it gives up the ghost, but so far, it works well.
Thankfully, I never had a lamp explode on me. That sounds absolutely terrifying.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Laser projectors also tend to have better color depth. Projector tech has actually progressed by leaps and bounds in the past decade, so people still using older projectors are really missing out.
The one big problem they haven’t been able to solve is black levels. Because with a projector screen, your black level can only ever be as dark as the ambient light in the room.
neo2478@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I have a NAS, 2 mini PCs, 2 3D printers and that’s my power consumption on for 6 months.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
How did you get my power bill
Defectus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When it was - 10c a month was 2400kWh with a heat pump, one electric radiator and bathroom floor heating.
expatriado@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
more like “thanks bro, keep sending those $$ my way”