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The whole “electricity costs a lot” argument is getting tiresome. Where I live, electricity is 11 cents per KWh. That means even if you run that machine full ti
by 0xbear 9y ago
The whole “electricity costs a lot” argument is getting tiresome. Where I live, electricity is 11 cents per KWh. That means even if you run that machine full tilt 24x7 (which you won’t), and even if it draws 1KW (which it won’t), it’s still only $79/mo in electricity cost.
- merb 9y ago> electricity costs a lot well it's not just electricity. to run your server you probably at least need a network, ups and probably other things. this stuff especially gets ugly when you want to have a network with many servers. at least most dedicated server providers charge a ton of money for interconnection of servers. well at least ova actually provides a vRack for dedicated servers but its not always free.
- lathiat 9y agoPower in a lot of places is 2-3x that, and for a naively designed data centre you can double that to include the cost for air conditioning (yes you can do a lot better but on a small scale, basic AC is going to equal your workload draw).
- 0xbear 9y agoData centers aren’t built in such places. And for just a few machines a simple building HVAC will do fine.