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My solar covers more than my entire electric bills in the mild weather months.
I was thinking of moving to more modern systems with modest power consumption too. One of the systems I picked up is basically a case-as-a-heatsink with no fans.
My electric bill last month was $15. It eventually is financially worth it.
Don’t know how hard you went on your home lab, I use office rather than datacenter equipment and it’s quite and plenty for my needs. For my professional test/dev needs I have such equipment at work, so I don’t need to home train on gear for the sake of competence in the field.
My solar covers more than my entire electric bills in the mild weather months.
I was thinking of moving to more modern systems with modest power consumption too. One of the systems I picked up is basically a case-as-a-heatsink with no fans.
Never bothered with solar. Tbh the only benefit I see there is integrating it into the smart-home 😁
No fans would be great, but it’s not just the PC that makes noise. It’s the switches and NASs and UPSs…
My electric bill last month was $15. It eventually is financially worth it.
Don’t know how hard you went on your home lab, I use office rather than datacenter equipment and it’s quite and plenty for my needs. For my professional test/dev needs I have such equipment at work, so I don’t need to home train on gear for the sake of competence in the field.