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My homelab gives me power!!!
Oh, you're talking about electricity π about 70 Watts: (60W Proxmox server (OMV, Node Red, Domoticz, Home Assistant, and some other container that I don't even remember ππ), 6W Fujitsu Futro S720 for OPNsense and some Watts for a couple of switches).
About 1200w @120v
I have 200 of that at home, the other 1000 is in our data center at work, and I donβt pay for that power. Itβll be rough when I leave some day.
My Grafana dashboard says 81 watts at the moment. This includes a slightly beefy Intel computer running Proxmox, with a Kubernetes cluster inside, a few other small ARM servers, and my networking stack which is a router, 1 switch, 1 AP, and a modem. Also the main server is full of spinning rust disks. I haven't done much to optimize power consumption.
Probably a lot ππ mine is an old gaming PC with a 3700x and a GTX 970, I try not to think about it. Still, cheaper than 10 streaming services.
Comparable to your's. My Server/NAS usually is at about 15W to provide me and family/friends with a few selfhosted services. If i use it for backup or access some old photos/dvds it may spin up another hdd or two and it may draw additional power. (Or use the cpu). The cable modem and wifi router need another 20W combined.
I think that should be around 300kW per year. A bit more than the fridge in the kitchen claims to use per its energy label.
(edit: it's always very interesting to ask where people live (and what they're paying for energy) when asking questions like this. I'm not sure but i believe 300W in Texas is like 40W in Germany ;-)
About 70 W for opnsense on a thin client, an Atom Proxmox and fanless 24 port switch. North of 6 kW if I fire up everything.
Avarage load for me is around 300w running two T320s, a R510, and a NUC. The T320s are clustered running plex, 'arrs, pihole/unbound, game servers, and odoo. The nuc serves two purposes, firstly to keep quorum in the cluster and secondarily as a low power device to run a secondary pihole/unbound instance incase the power goes out as it's the only server that will stay on UPS power until the battery runs out. The R510 is my storage server with around 56TB and growing.
I am planning on adding a GPU server with a few tesla P40s as I've been using my workstation for these tasks which makes it difficult to use it for work.
I downgraded recently and is now down to about 50 watt. My earlier server used 100+ watt, but the new one only 20 watt. Iβm still considering downgrading my router as it is pretty overkill.
I've been eyeing a transition over to intel Nucs. At the moment i'm at about 120w, hoping to bring that down to 70-80w, or even more if possible
Currently powering:
25w pc with 3 SSDs and idk how much w for rpi running 2nd pihole
My rack looks to pull about 325-350W. I need to downgrade my main server, as it's a bit overkill as a decommed proliant. Need to figure out a high ram nuc as a replacement
100W or so.
Hmm according to homeassistant my Rack+PC consumed precisely this much over the last day (graph from homeassistant). I have been trying to minimize power consumption through more efficient hardware, but you can only go so far without making big sacrifices.
