Share your homelab power usage and energy cost! mine is ~50W and less than $3 USD a month!

Currently drawing that daily… sometimes a lot more…

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129kWh/month (approx $10.2)

...100% solar powered...

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In eu for 35$ wish to have usa prices

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Next step: a home battery for night usage... (or can you compensate night usage with solar too? In that case: lucky you! (Where I live this is now impossible, so i bought a battery))

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Idk I have cheap electricity, 7c day 6 night so I just have it on its own

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My entire server rack uses about 150wh so 24/7 it calculates out to about 11.50 USD

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Similar wattage, but that calculates to about 44€ per month cries in german electricity costs

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atm im not running much since not much time to lab, just the base stack.

about 35€/mo for 650w average consumption.

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Mine is sadly over an order of magnitude higher than this...

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500w idle, 900w under load, 360kW/month

Costs around 13$ USD

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400-500W ~100$ per month.

I make nothing, I give people shit. Yay.

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Way beyond. Germany.

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UPS load - 50W average. 13¢/KW. About $4.8/month

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My lab is around 65-70W, thats Router + Switch + Server (Ryzen 3600 + 3x 3.5"HDD)

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Do you have any base fees in your bill?

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What software is this? Thanks!

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What are you using to view and chart your power usage?

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About 300W, ~7kWh a day, costs me about $80 AUD a month.

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Please share your setup that you've used to achieve these figures. I am interested!

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Is an Athlon 3000G +16GB ram and only ssd. A very basic setup. I downsized and killed my second hosy to save energy. https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/s/SQY5S8HM2b

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my apartment recently had some renovations done and the worker today asked my if my electric bill was high.. yea .. kind of.. I replied.

. "well your apartment was much warmer compared to all your neighbours..." go figure.

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About 2200kWh/year for $165 CAD ($122 USD).

R730XD with 12 hard drives and 2 SAS SSDs running unRAID
3 node Proxmox cluster built with HP prodesks (i3-7100t, i5-7500t and i5-8500)
pfSense firewall running on a minipc with an N5105
Unifi US8-60W powering 3 APs and an ip camera

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According to my calibrated Tasmota plug, mine is guzzling about 160 Watt every hour, with energy costs sitting at (iirc) 0,38€/kWh. I really gotta take the time and track down who the worst offenders are some day....

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May I ask how you are able to calculate this? Thank you!

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I don't want to play this game...

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I'm right around $75 - $85 / month. Just about $0.11 / kWh.

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~4 Amps @220V last reading on the stabilizer.
Costs around 15~20 USD/month.

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oddly 48 port 1gb switch was eating more power then thread ripper builds(2 of them)

i went to a fanless netgear 24 port switch for 25 bucks.

was 30 extra on top of Normal bill.

this will cut bill down by 20 alone.

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Old PoE switch? I have some 3750s that don't see regular action because they're loud, hot, and powerhungry

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Running 5 dell r730XD with a ton of networking gear and ip cameras, I'm pulling about 5000 watts or 120kwh a day. Roughly $600 a month in power. YIIIPPEEEEEE

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I don't know off the top of my head. I do know that when I commissioned my new setup, my electric bill went up about $15 a month.

I love that dash board though and would love to know more about it.

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I think I'm about $20-$25US a month for my "homelab" stuff. I am pairing it down quite a bit from the past due to electricity costs. Ours in Colorado\US is .12¢ per hour off peak (7pm-1pm, .15¢ from 1-3pm and .19¢ from 3-7pm. I've moved to PI's or NUCs for anything I need on outside of my usual compute stuff.

No solar yet, but will have a setup once I move to the next place.

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50W - $3 a month

~$0.08 per kW

That’s damn cheap. I am sitting at ~15W for 0.33€ per kW

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Ok.. this may be a dumb question, but what software is OP running to create those graphs?

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About 3000W ~ 400 Euros a Month in Germany.

~0.2€/KwH Day

~0.15€KwH Night

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Approx 190W 24/7 and that's CAD $14 per month.

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HP 800 G3 mini with Proxmox mainly running Home Assistant, a VM used to host docker with Jellyfin and other lightweight containers, and another VM running PiHole and PiVPN
Synology DS218+
Synology DS120J
AVM FritzBox 7530 Router/Modem

Somewhere between 40 and 50W during the day, with the Synologys active depending on drive sleep status, and 23-24 at night with those shut off

On average about 0.9 kWh per day.

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Instead of sharing power usage, share the equipment you're using to lower Watt usage.

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257kWh this month, or about $30 of electricity where I live.

This includes my entire server rack so not just specifically my server costs.

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3 UPS's read 350ish Watt all day 24/7/365 and thats just from my main rack

Add another 400 watts for my proxmox cluster (5 node one being an ML360g6 for 200watts)

And then another 150ish watts for my computer desk with 2 laptops and 6 monitors

Did i say i live in an apt and DONT pay for electric :)

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130w average usage for me. Works out at roughly £28/month (damn UK energy prices).

That 130w includes the server, switches and waps.

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Mine is about 600w and is mostly powered by solar but if it weren’t would cost me $13 at USD0.03/kwh

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About 250w. Cost of power on average 5 cents (€) per kWh. Often much lower than that. Last week it was negative. Don’t really care about the cost of electricity. 🇫🇮

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Getting my info from HWMonitor as I can't find a better option without buying a hardware solution.

CPU: around 15W DRAM: around 10W GPU: around 60W if I'm reading that bit right...

Total (and adding a bit for other components and PSU efficiency losses): around 115W

Over a (30 day) month that would be 82.8kWh or £26 a month (actually a bit less than this as I'm on an economy 7 tariff which halves the costs per kWh overnight, I went with worst case as the server uses more energy during the weekend days).

Would be interesting to boot up the old server and check use there, willing to bet a dual Xeon X5670 machine with spinning rust for storage would be far higher than the current Xeon E5 2690 v4 with M.2s in there (a quick Google search indicates 174W for a machine with less hardware than my old server, at idle)

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Ha mine is 10x that

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I pay 12€ a month for ~60W :(

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mine is ~50W and less than $3 USD a month!

Cries in German 0.44 USD per kWh ...

Paying 27,23 USD for my 85W NAS (which I need to bring down badly ...) per month. Waiting for a new bill on solar power on your balcony early 2024. Lookin into buying 800W panels and a battery. Should help bring down the operational cost tremendeously.

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I know the feeling. 0.44€ in Ireland as well. I use about 500W continuously which is probably around €150/month (we pay lower rates at night for 7 hours). This is a far cry from two years ago when I was running 800-900W at 0.17€/kWh

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Yeah I moved to the 2 NAS approach. I use a thincentre m910q as live system for frequent use and 1TB of SSD storage and my old NAS as Cold storage with 40TB, which is not that frequently used and only turned on to backup active data and retrieving data which I need again

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Bittte... Verbund Österreich :(

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- Zeit for another Anschluß?
  
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I have 0.37 euros per kWh but I am crazy enough to be using 210watts.

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- Was sollen sonst nur die Nachbarn denken ;)
  
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My last lab was 10-15kw, working on lab v2 in a new house and hoping to get that way down. No Vmax this time so fingers crossed haha

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Vmax like EMC SAN? Wow I didn't know people have those in their homes hahaha good luck!

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u/Positive-Gazelle2603 Specs?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/s/SQY5S8HM2b

I downsized and killed Host2. Now only host1 is an always on server.

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17 watts. HP 800 g1

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Use a single wyze 5070 for my home server just because power usage was key, and it seems this thin client had best power use to performance to cost ratio. It uses I think around 16W on avarage.

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Some specs to go alongside this would help with perspective. I'm running at 65W and have 2x 6TB spinning drives in mirror. 2 ssds for OS and a crap celeron

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Mine is an Athlon 3000G with 3 drives 4TB mix of M.2 and sata SSD. No spining rust. All in ZFS mirrors. I use monitoring for telegram notifications and email to know when some drive wears out and I need a replacement.

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About $35/month. Bottom right of first image.

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Any chance you'd want to share a json of that? I always have issues setting up table visualizations in Grafana and I'd love to see how you set those up.

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Are you using NUT-server and reading it to Grafana? Would be interested to know the workflow here.

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- Here’s the code. It’s telegraf, varken, influxes v2, and grafana. And many hours.
  
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Geez! Now that’s a stats page!

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As a new homelaber, I am in awe of this dashboard

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- Wow u/SpinCharm that's a beautiful dashboard right there!
  
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Nice, how'd you integrate your data usage statistics with NASA's mission control dashboard?

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- I fly under their radar….
  
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I have one server I built around a 13100f cpu. 2 3.5” hdds, 2 2.5” ssds and an nvme for boot. ~35w at normal use which runs me ~7c/day ~$24/year (upstate NY USA)

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Kindof painful to see you paying 6 cents where I pay 39😓

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60W 24/7 which costs about € 11,- per month

Due to high energy prices I'm barely using the server I built back in 21 (would draw an additional 100-120W). And my NAS only runs during backup. The 60W are basic networking stuff (router, switch, ...) and 3 Raspberry Pi 4B which run all of my stuff now.

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That's nice! How could you do that,plz share your set up! thanks!

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Here https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/s/SQY5S8HM2b I downsized it to only host1 moved all there, now Host2 is a gaming PC and main utility pc. I shutdown or suspend it everyday. Host1 is the only alwayson server now.

Btw, the grafana + prometheus setup is very cool you can even get alerts rp ur email and phone. I'd probably do a tutorial for how to do it since grafana dpcumentation is a bit confusing at times.

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- How do you collect the usage data? Is there hardware involved?
  
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55w idle ~105w high load.

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Currently about 3.2kw - 3.5kw on average. And $0.06/kwh USD for power.

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About 10W, as I was looking for a power efficient CPU when I bought the server. So 7kWh a month, a little bit over 2€/month.

I have been using a j5005 with 16GB Ram, 40TB attached storage (the harddrives are spun down when not in use) for the last five years and so far I never had the impression that I need to upgrade.

The Gemini lake series supports only 8GB Ram officially, but apparently up to 32GB are possible.

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86W so about 20Euro/Month

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Ops monthly cost is my daily cost.

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Mine is ~26w, two arm based SBC jetson nano and an rk3399 NanoPC T4, three laptop usb hdd, a 1gig switch and one of my mesh routers all connected to one smartplug. Running Home Assistant, Frigate, PhotoPrism, DoubleTake/Deepstack, Nginx reverse proxy.

Cost £0.27/Kwh 2470.026*0.27=£1.33 per week

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Everything running I’m sitting at 392w

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Son, if you’re looking at power costs you’re in the wrong sub.

/s

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I think your load percentage and time left plots would look better if they started at zero.

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2100 kWh/month, with the UPS reading about a 2900 W draw. Cost is $0.09/kWh. Located in Middle Tennessee.

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Heh. ~275W at $0.11/kWh. I'm at about $24/month. But that's network and server combined. Server only uses about 125W.

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