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My 'green' host runs diesel 6 hours a day

Datacenter Talk by steveipw 1 replies 134 views
steveipw

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Bought a $18 power meter off a surplus site. Clamped it on my rack feed at Hetzner's "carbon neutral" Oregon facility. Here is what I found:

  • Grid power: 14.2kW baseline
  • Generator runtime: 06:00-08:30 and 17:00-20:30 daily
  • Diesel exhaust audible from loading dock

Their PUE claims 1.08. Their actual PUE with generator load is somewhere north of 2.0. For that money you get:

  • 1x EPYC box
  • 4x 16TB HDDs in ZFS raidz2
  • Lies

I have 30 days of logs. Who wants them.

zfs send | zfs receive. repeat.
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steveipw said:
I have 30 days of logs. Who wants them.

Thank you for the detailed report. We have reached out to Hetzner (https://www.hetzner.com) for comment through our informal channels. They have not responded.

If you pursue a refund, document everything. Chargeback windows are your friend. We will update if we learn more.

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