more like "thanks bro, keep sending those $$ my way"
Lol...I hate my power bill.
Hmm I think you're crossing into home datacenter territory.
I've got some rookie numbers to pump up LMAO
You'd think I'd have a few racks of equipment running.. most of that is heating and cooling. Old drafty farm house with old inefficient heat pumps. Winter was damn cold this year.
Whoa. A really bad month for me is 2500 kwh.
Why does the electricity company know your flat size and your heating source?
In most places in the US, basic home specs are public record and/or just floating around since the last time it was publicly listed for sale
I bet you can look at the building permit and learn this stuff
That too, but some jurisdictions put some guardrails for pulling full prior permits, when I wanted to pull all the historical permits for my house for my own records, I had to bring in some proof that I was either the owner, tenant or other interested party (like say a contractor who want to see the previous permits before doing their own work)
Wow. That idea is definitely 2American4me...
(I also just posted it in the respective community, as it fits perfectly there...)
Where I am in Germany, not only do they know all of that, but they come out every year to check it. This year, they showed up several days before they said they were going to, but when the guy walked in, he looked around, and then gave us a bunch of information about dealing with slum lords, lol.
Are you perhaps confusing that with the heating meter checkers in appartment buildings? They actually need the living area for the billing and have a contract to do so with your ~~land~~slumlord, and thereby you.
Regarding the slumlord: The magic word is generally "Mietminderung", I think.
Besides what others have said, they'd know the capabilities of the address when it's built, at a minimum, as they're responsible for providing the infrastructure to deliver power to it.
I really don't get why you're asking this - they need to know what a facility is capable of to manage and plan power delivery.
As an aside, graphs like this are wildly wrong. Mine says the comparison is made between residences from 0.5 to 1.5 times the size of mine, within a 7 mile radius. So it includes apartments downtown who's heat is steam, and each unit insulates each other, and the building has a dozen to 100 bodies in it, heating it up.
That makes for a completly irrelevant comparison.
they need to know what a facility is capable of to manage and plan power delivery.
But that's a single value measured in Ampere.
The size in square feet is something completely irrelevant to know.
And even the Ampere value is only relevant for the local provider that connects to your house, not for the company selling you the actual electric energy.
The company selling me electricity knows nothing about me but my electric meter ID.
Lighting load on new construction homes is calculated based on square footage.
(USA) My flat just had its tax assessment done and that includes the floor area, heating source, and other things like how fancy your kitchen is (mine is "standard", btw). That tax assessment is available online to everyone.
Soooo... there are openly available public databases containing information on how fancy a kitchen you own...?
On one hand that's completely hilarious.
On the other hand that's frighteningly dystopian.
To say it with the latest officially elected German youth word: "Das crazy."
Yep. For example, search for parcel "176-194-030" in the Hartford, CT tax assessor's search. It should bring up a McDonald's fast food building (I chose that because it's less creepy than singling out some random person's home.)
There's even a little drawing of the building. The purple is the first floor and the blue is the "canopy" or, I guess, awning outside. The "interior" tab on this site doesn't list the kitchen quality, but does say the insulation is "typical" and 40% of the building has sprinklers. My guess is different cities and towns track different things in their tax assessments.
Oh! IIRC, Germany has the thing where the kitchen doesn't stay with the house. In the USA, they're firmly attached.
It seems very common in the US to get these mailed by the supplier. This one seems to be a blueprint for National Grid, and is similar to a post from this house light show co. on Facebook
How many computers do you have?
I think they forgot to mention the huge tomato farm they have in their basement. Tons of lights and special ventilation setup. Tastes much better than what you can get at the grocery store of course.
I call it the Tomacco. Not responsible if you feed it to animals
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Like 3 or 4 1u/2u servers equipped with a couple GPUs, plus a tape library lol
It's not obvious before you do the math but a 500 watt homelab is basically a large air conditioner. The AC is just on ⅓ of the time ½ of the year.
Lol I've got like 2-3 ACs then 😂
I have to split power between 3 different circuits that are near my office in order to keep each one within the 80% rule in the event I'm putting heavy load on them
....I really need to get an electrician out to put in a 240 line 😅...
This thread makes me question my 2,000kWh power bill, I don't have any servers and always shut down my main PC over night. I do use a laptop as a media center that I don't shut down, but I figured it can't be using that much power.
Maybe the main factor is me being in home office and using my PC about 12-14h a day? 😅
Edit: Oh, I guess many people are talking monthly usage here. My number is over the last year, so I guess I'm not doing too bad
Uff...that's close to my yearly electricity bill (including a home server/NAS). Energy consumption in the US is crazy.
Now imagine having home servers, (legal) weed grow tents, and and EV
Did you try to size your solar panels to your usage or are you doing small scale solar?
I’ve been thinking about solar, but the prices are pretty harsh, especially without the federal credits.
I don't think I can get the amount of panels needed, as-is my system can produce about 700-800 watts in a good sunny month (which the month they used wasn't really, it was Feb and it produced about 600-650)
But my electric company has some dumbass arbitrary limit on the amount panels the professional installers have to follow and I'm pretty sure I'm close to it
I've been meaning to check out this "unofficial" DIY plugin solar stuff, but haven't gotten to it yet lol
I'm conducting experiments on temperal mechanics. I need at least 1.21 Gigawatts.
similar heating source
I highly doubt that, probably OP heating source are his servers
had the same. now I'm running more with less.
got rid of my commercial grade servers and implemented consumer grade hardware that requires less power.
I was running four whole dell R series for a total of around 5kw of power (four devices x 1kw psu + redundant).
now I'm running two consumer grade servers with newer for efficient tech and smaller non-redundant psus. it should be sitting right around 1.2kw.
the newer hardware can easily run what used to take a dedicated R series.
next is to consolidate all my network infra.
When the server alone is idling at 200W
I felt really bad about having a PC on all the time that consumed like 30-50 watts. Never mind I guess.
Probably closer to 800W based on OP's usage.
Someone's still running a Bitcoin farm.
Mine looks like this because Im the only one that has a heat pump on a street full of gas users
Is this weekly or monthly? If monthly, where the hell are people using only 600 kwh a month?
if you have gas or wood as a heating system and no electric cars?
This month we have reach for the moment 398kWh, with quite a lot of powertools(compressor, woodworking equipment,...) , plus dryer/washers etc. But no electric heating/boiler, which is gas or wood.
This is how you get cops busting through your door looking for a pot farm
Same here, but I run a projector and watch movies and play games on one wall of my room. The bulb sucks 330 watts to project that large of an image.
I love being an irresponsible adult so much sometimes. :D
Yeah I had something similar when I had my 24U rack somewhat half occupied some years ago. Nowadays I have the same occasionally as I have two electric cars.
And I have a 10kWp solar system, too. So I can get by summertime with some <500kwh bills.
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