This is after having tons of solar panels too LMAO
Yeah all ya gotta do is wfh
This thread makes me question my 2,000kWh power bill, I don’t have any servers and always shut down my main PC over night. I do use a laptop as a media center that I don’t shut down, but I figured it can’t be using that much power.
Maybe the main factor is me being in home office and using my PC about 12-14h a day? 😅
I use 2k a month in the summer, but i know its my hvac unit. On the winter or spring months i use 1200.
I don’t have solar but i do have two electric cars and 4 gaming PCs in a 4 person house.
I’m conducting experiments on temperal mechanics. I need at least 1.21 Gigawatts.
This is how you get cops busting through your door looking for a pot farm
similar heating source
I highly doubt that, probably OP heating source are his servers
Now imagine having home servers, (legal) weed grow tents, and and EV
Uff…that’s close to my yearly electricity bill (including a home server/NAS). Energy consumption in the US is crazy.
What’s the idle power on your NAS? Less than 6 watts?
No, not quite that low. It’s an x86 PC with multiple HDDs. It draws about 15W in idle, or about 130 kWh per year. It’s a substantial part of my electricity bill xD
Lol…I hate my power bill.
Whoa. A really bad month for me is 2500 kwh.
Hmm I think you’re crossing into home datacenter territory.
I’ve got some rookie numbers to pump up LMAO
You’d think I’d have a few racks of equipment running… most of that is heating and cooling. Old drafty farm house with old inefficient heat pumps. Winter was damn cold this year.
Someone’s still running a Bitcoin farm.
more like “thanks bro, keep sending those $$ my way”
How many computers do you have?
I think they forgot to mention the huge tomato farm they have in their basement. Tons of lights and special ventilation setup. Tastes much better than what you can get at the grocery store of course.
Tato: cross between a tomato and a potato.
I call it the Tomacco. Not responsible if you feed it to animals
Tomater
Like 3 or 4 1u/2u servers equipped with a couple GPUs, plus a tape library lol
It’s not obvious before you do the math but a 500 watt homelab is basically a large air conditioner. The AC is just on ⅓ of the time ½ of the year.
Lol I’ve got like 2-3 ACs then 😂
I have to split power between 3 different circuits that are near my office in order to keep each one within the 80% rule in the event I’m putting heavy load on them
…I really need to get an electrician out to put in a 240 line 😅…
I’ve been measuring my server rack’s power usage, and it usually sits at around 500W with a 1U + 2U server (and GPU). My plan for the 1U has been to colocate it, but it’s an extra $25/month for each 100W increment, so I’ve been trying things like lowering the CPU power limit to save some money. Apparently turning my 200W EPYC CPU down to 150W barely makes a difference in my workloads, but that 50W is enough to save me quite a bit.
Man what are you paying per kwh? I’m averaging ~$0.21 AUD using a supplier who offers a variable market wholesale price.
I’d thought my rack was a bit of a hog with a z390 9900k and erying es system, but checking my current usage it’s vibing at 180kwh~
At 9:20 pm my rack has set me back $0.80 for the day (excluding misc connection fees and so forth). Most of my daily use would be in heating / cooling with two split systems & the wife WFH.
All of them.
Did you try to size your solar panels to your usage or are you doing small scale solar?
I’ve been thinking about solar, but the prices are pretty harsh, especially without the federal credits.
I don’t think I can get the amount of panels needed, as-is my system can produce about 700-800 watts in a good sunny month (which the month they used wasn’t really, it was Feb and it produced about 600-650)
But my electric company has some dumbass arbitrary limit on the amount panels the professional installers have to follow and I’m pretty sure I’m close to it
I’ve been meaning to check out this “unofficial” DIY plugin solar stuff, but haven’t gotten to it yet lol
Why does the electricity company know your flat size and your heating source?
In most places in the US, basic home specs are public record and/or just floating around since the last time it was publicly listed for sale
I bet you can look at the building permit and learn this stuff
That too, but some jurisdictions put some guardrails for pulling full prior permits, when I wanted to pull all the historical permits for my house for my own records, I had to bring in some proof that I was either the owner, tenant or other interested party (like say a contractor who want to see the previous permits before doing their own work)
Wow. That idea is definitely 2American4me…
(I also just posted it in the respective community, as it fits perfectly there…)Where I am in Germany, not only do they know all of that, but they come out every year to check it. This year, they showed up several days before they said they were going to, but when the guy walked in, he looked around, and then gave us a bunch of information about dealing with slum lords, lol.
Are you perhaps confusing that with the heating meter checkers in appartment buildings? They actually need the living area for the billing and have a contract to do so with your
landslumlord, and thereby you.Regarding the slumlord: The magic word is generally “Mietminderung”, I think.
I’m not confusing it, that’s exactly what I’m talking about! They’re employed by the utility company in my city and contracted through the landlord. Are they completely independent from the utility company elsewhere?
The apartment is not actually a huge problem, slightly better than a standard student apartment, it’s more that the guy was just drive-by judging my life.
Typically you have a contract with the electricity company yourself, not via the landlord.
He typically doesn’t know and doesn’t care from whom (or if at all) you get your electricity.Yours might be a special arrangement because of being a student apartment.
I have no idea how uncommon this is here and hope I’m not doxxing myself, but there’s only been one option (the city itself) in the ten+ apartments my husband and I have lived in in this city for water, electricity, and heat (though obviously there are options for using pellet stoves and similar things, but that doesn’t come up much in apartments), so I don’t know if I live in a weird place or if there’s just one city office exchange that serves as a middleman for multiple options.
Or I might just be misinterpreting you and you meant things like pellet stoves, fireplaces, etc. I guess I would have thought the Schornsteinfeger would have reported the heating method for your home to the city.
It’s not technically a student apartment, but it’s right next to campus and we’re definitely the first married couple to live there.
Besides what others have said, they’d know the capabilities of the address when it’s built, at a minimum, as they’re responsible for providing the infrastructure to deliver power to it.
I really don’t get why you’re asking this - they need to know what a facility is capable of to manage and plan power delivery.
As an aside, graphs like this are wildly wrong. Mine says the comparison is made between residences from 0.5 to 1.5 times the size of mine, within a 7 mile radius. So it includes apartments downtown who’s heat is steam, and each unit insulates each other, and the building has a dozen to 100 bodies in it, heating it up.
That makes for a completly irrelevant comparison.
they need to know what a facility is capable of to manage and plan power delivery.
But that’s a single value measured in Ampere.
The size in square feet is something completely irrelevant to know.
And even the Ampere value is only relevant for the local provider that connects to your house, not for the company selling you the actual electric energy.
The company selling me electricity knows nothing about me but my electric meter ID.
Lighting load on new construction homes is calculated based on square footage.
Lighting load on new construction homes is calculated based on square footage.
That doesn’t even make sense as it treads someone just putting up a single 5W bulb the same as someone having an indoor hemp plantation or heavy machine shop in their basement.
Well the NEC still uses wattages from old incandescent bulbs for general lighting load calcs, plus there’s always a reasonable amount of overspeccing built into the calculation.
You would then add any large loads specifically. Clothes drier, oven, fridge, HVAC, anything that comes with a nameplate wattage rating should be included in the load calc.
Most utilities these days will also just round up to a 200A service for anything larger than a trailer. Big houses would get multiples of 200A services if needed.
It seems very common in the US to get these mailed by the supplier. This one seems to be a blueprint for National Grid, and is similar to a post from this house light show co. on Facebook
When the server alone is idling at 200W
I felt really bad about having a PC on all the time that consumed like 30-50 watts. Never mind I guess.
which is why i autosuspend my pc that’s also a jellyfin & smb server
Probably closer to 800W based on OP’s usage.
How did you get my power bill
