Re: cost to operate.

Based on what we have been discussing I assume my 400 watt power supply
may be drawing much less power based on actual usage. Therefore maybe
my computer might only be using 60 watts... making the cost lower.

Your thoughts.



On 2021-07-22 21:39, Mike Bushroe via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I usually use a mental rule of thumb that for every watt of 24/7/365
> power consumption costs about $1 per year. Obviously this is failing
> as electric rates keep going up. So to first order of magnitude a 100
> watt server would cost around $100 a year, but if the server was using
> the whole 400 watts it would cost more like $400 a year.
>
>>> If my home web server is using 100 watts an hour that mean 100
> watts *>> 30 days * 24 hours or 72K watts.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking 72 * .1085 = $7.81 a month.
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