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At full power running 24/7 (12V*3A) at 10cents/kwh, the mini PC uses $36 of electricity. Who cares how much power it uses.
by ThrowawayTestr 2y ago
At full power running
24/7 (12V*3A) at 10cents/kwh, the mini PC uses $36 of electricity. Who cares how much power it uses.
- cardanome 2y agoHere in Germany it is more like 40cents/kwh so that is some serious money down the drain for some people.
- jrmg 2y agoThere isn’t anywhere in the US that has 10cents/kwh residential power either (though there are a few places that are close): 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...
- yau8edq12i 2y agoAnd perhaps we shouldn't just blindly waste energy just because it happens to be cheap.
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoI think worrying about a few dollars when the performance difference is 2x at minimum is dumb.
- craftkiller 2y agoIt depends on your use-case. If I was making a file server then idle power consumption is all that matters because both of these machines will saturate a gigabit ethernet link[0] and a home file server is going to be idle 90+% of the time. If I was making a build server instead then I'd actually be using the additional CPU capacity. [0] actually I wouldn't use either of these machines for a file server due to the lack of ECC, but you get the point.
- helf 2y ago[dead]
- flounder3 2y agoPG&E in California is 4-6x+. I care. https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/residential-electric-rate-plan-pricing.pdf.coredownload.pdf https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/resid...