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I was planning on renting a 1/3 rack at Hetzner Finland, but power is cheaper in Bulgaria now (I'm in Bulgaria). Currently 19c/kwh for businesses and looking li

I was planning on renting a 1/3 rack at Hetzner Finland, but power is cheaper in Bulgaria now (I'm in Bulgaria). Currently 19c/kwh for businesses and looking like it's coming down still (used to be closer to 10c I believe). It's also 80% nuclear/renewables, better than Finland, seems. I have three Asus ESC8000 G3 with 8*3080 GPUs each. I have been hosting in the basement but looking at colocation or renting a space. Colocation pricing doesn't seem to favor power-hungry GPU servers though. I have a source for cheap Asus ESC8000 G3 and cheap 3080 turbo cards, in case anyone needs to set up machines for ML inference, mail me.

genewitch 3y ago
In all the datacenters i've used in the US they don't charge per kwh, they charge per max amperage, so you can get dual 15A 240VAC or dual 45A or whatever you need, and that's baked into the cost. Each rack has a power budget due to cooling concerns, etc. On the one hand, the bill is always the same amount, regardless of power consumption. On the other hand, you gotta make sure you use your power budget or you're wasting money.