[horsawlarway]

And yet it's far more economical for me than paying for streaming services. A single $30/m bill vs nearly $100/m saved after ditching all the streaming services. And that's not counting the other saas products it replaced... just streaming.

Additionally - it's actually not that hard to put this entire load on solar.

4x350watt panels, 1 small inverter/mppt charger combo and a 12v/24v battery or two will do you just fine in the under $1k range. Higher up front cost - but if power is super expensive it's a one time expense that will last a decade or two, and you get to feel all nice and eco-conscious at the same time.

Or you can just not run the GPUs, in which case my usage falls back to ~100w. I You can drive lower still - but it's just not worth my time. It's only barely worth thinking about at 450W for me.

[Aachen]

I'm not saying it should be cheaper to run this elsewhere, I'm saying that this is a super high power draw for the utility it provides

My own server doesn't run voice recognition so I can't speak to that (I can only opine that it can't be worth a constant draw of 430W to get rid of hardware switches and buttons), but my server also does streaming video and replaces SaaS services, so similar to what you mention, at around 20W