[tehlike]

Pretty nice.

These days data center capacity is measured with wattage. What's yours? My homelab is about 650Ws as is, and should cost around 300$/mo in electricity (california premium).

[lostlogin]

I was trying to sort a decent UPS, then got distracted by solar and bought a house battery.

Once that addition was complete I wanted to get power usage down.

macOS is a pretty terrible OS for a homelab, but the mini is amazing. It’s averaging about 5.5w and has an awful lot of power available.

UTM makes it more bearable and running services in Ubuntu works fine.

[tehlike]

Yeah - I don't have macs, but i use older Lenovo tinys. They run at around 10watts, and plenty of compute for what i need.

I also have a monster epyc 7200p, a 1G poe switch, a 56G mellanox optics switch, another server with HBA connected to a DS4246.

Everything I absolutely positively need.

[vhaudiquet]

Fortunately, the R740 is around 230W, and the switches, routers, and everything around seems to only take 40W. Which means I'm below 300W, and I guess we have cheaper electricity in France as I don't pay as much as you (I think less than 50€/month for the homelab)

[gh02t]

I'm seeing an average cost in CA of 30c/kWhr, which should be more like $150. Is your electricity bill really running 60c per? Ouch.

[tehlike]

https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/resid...

I don't have the old rates, i remember having 60cents or so as the baseline but i don't fully recall.

[gh02t]

Damn, that's still pretty harsh.