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Having hosted infrastructure in CA at multiple colos. I would advise you to host it elsewhere if you can, cost of power, other infrastructure is much higher in
by bnr4u 3y ago
Having hosted infrastructure in CA at multiple colos. I would advise you to host it elsewhere if you can, cost of power, other infrastructure is much higher in CA than AZ or NV.
- PettingRabbits 3y agoMontreal would be the place to go for cheap power, and the CAD-USD advantage.
- ec109685 3y agoPower seems like a very small amount of cost of compute when it comes to GPU’s.
- version_five 3y agoFWIW I tired to look up some numbers, i found California "industrial" electricity at $0.18/Kwh https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph... and H100s using 300-700w https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/ which implies a worst case marginal cost of .18*.7 = $.126 / gpu / hour. Looks like Montana is cheapest at ~$.05 / kwh which would bring that down to $.035. So there may be about a $0.09 California premium (vs the absolute cheapest possibility), which as you say is a small amount of the total cost, but could be material for large workloads.
- ec109685 3y agoMeanwhile, AWS is charging $8 an hour for their top of the line gpu server.
- wongarsu 3y ago$0.09 for the GPU alone. Add power for mainboard, RAM, and fans, efficiency loss at the power supply, networking, etc. After that another flat 30% for HVAC, since all that "consumed" electricity got turned into heat and the heat has to go somewhere. And when we are talking about low margins, a 5-10% difference in cost is very significant.
- jedberg 3y agoRetail residential power in the city of Santa Clara is $0.15/KwH, I'm sure commercial could be less. Especially if you throw some solar panels on the roof. The most expensive part would be the land, but honestly there is some pretty cheap land outside the cities.
- hackernewds 3y agoover regulation and taxes