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I did a random search for "seagate drive power draw" and it lists 4.2W peak power consumption for a 5TB drive, which sells for $95-130. At California's $0.31/k

I did a random search for "seagate drive power draw" and it lists 4.2W peak power consumption for a 5TB drive, which sells for $95-130. At California's $0.31/kWh, the energy cost per hour for that drive is $0.001302. It would take ~72965 hours or ~8 years for the energy cost to exceed $95 at current rates, and the warranty on those drives are only 3 years. But of course, energy cost keeps going up, and drives are surviving longer, so the energy cost could still exceed the acquisition cost.

wiml 3y ago
In a data center, for every watt the drive consumes, you also have to pay to pump a watt of heat out of the building. I don't know what the numbers are like for a modern DC but cooling can be pretty expensive in terms of energy and equipment.
- interestica 3y ago
  Canada should install data centres in the north. Data pipelines instead of oil?
  - adgjlsfhk1 3y ago
    There are a lot of datacenters in Iceland because it's cold and has cheap geothermal power.
  - justsomehnguy 3y ago
    People want to have < 20ms latencies[0] and DCs needs many power, so you can't move DCs way further than where they are already[1] [0] Well, actually most people don't give a fuck but Google would bitch what your site isn't shown in an instant (even if there only 1 page) and would degrade your ranking shrug_emoji [1]] https://www.datacenters.com/locations/canada?map=true&query=canada&withProducts=false&showHidden=false&radius=0&bounds=&circleBounds=&polygonPath= https://www.datacenters.com/locations/canada?map=true&query=...