Interesting read. Thanks for the extensive comment. I'm a bid baffled that I missed the announcement myself as I maintain the instance I use at work as our git reposity, main issue tracker, and internal package feed. So I try the follow the blog. But life is busy.

Why use that over gitea?

I think I'm at 225 watts.

HP ProLiant us using 125 to 150 mostly, synology nas that consumes about 30, and I think the ubiquity stuff takes about 75 watts