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Where I live (Texas) electricity costs about $0.08/kWh, which means $500 per year will buy about 700 watts of continuous power. That's much higher than the TDP
by teraflop 8y ago
Where I live (Texas) electricity costs about $0.08/kWh, which means $500 per year will buy about 700 watts of continuous power. That's much higher than the TDP of any 8-core processor on the market. Even if you have more expensive power and account for cooling costs, it's hard to see how you could end up spending much more than $500/year to power a single machine.
- magduf 8y agoYeah, I wasn't looking into how realistic that $500 number was, I just accepted it from the OP as a given. But I think electricity tends to be more expensive in other parts of the country.
- bearjaws 8y agoDatacenters are placed wherever energy can be easily and cheaply acquired. Some may negotiate special deals with local utility companies, I don't have hard numbers on what datacenters usually pay for electricity though (assuming they don't provide their own).
- bzbarsky 8y agoJust for comparison, where I am (Massachusetts) it's $0.23/kWh or so for residential service.
- souprock 8y agoIt's $0.05 here in Florida. Cost of living is no joke. It's only a penny for the big industrial users.
- bzbarsky 8y ago$0.05 for both generation _and_ transmission charges? I would have expected that to be more like $0.09 or $0.10 for Florida... Still a good bit better than MA, of course. :)
- souprock 8y agoThere are some extra things, like a fuel charge. It comes to about $0.08 or $0.09 adding those things in, plus about $8 per month just to be connected.