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I already make this poll from 50W to 2kW+ can or not? In my country electricity is expensive so I am very curious dong. My two ARM boards at home already pull 18W total only, very efficient. But I see some people here run big iron and I wonder how much you pay for that. Please vote and share your setup also, I want to learn can or not.
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94W, four ARM SBCs, HostHatch colo, $15/month power included.
Assume compromise: your power draw is telemetry. Threat model any rack that reports per-outlet usage to a portal you don't control. Blast radius of a compromised PDU account is your entire deployment schedule.
My Leaseweb box: 340W under load, 110W idle. Attack surface includes the IPMI power metrics I had to disable. Zero trust means zero visibility to the host, unfortunately.
I requested deletion of this data under GDPR Article 17 and they complied, though they noted it prevents power-capped pricing. I now run blind, which is acceptable.
Many in this thread seem to run ARM or efficient x86. The poll results skew low, yes, but this reflects hardware evolution rather than misrepresentation. My previous generation drew 380W for similar compute.
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18W for TWO boards? What model exactly
Hardware evolution, yes, but the poll skips the middle ground
110W idle on a single box? That's not "efficient".
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MeritBudi, which ARM boards? I am running two NanoPi R6S for local DNS and caching proxy, 7W each at wall. Very stable. But for client work I need x86, unfortunately.
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Minh1987: Orange Pi 5 and a Radxa Zero 2. The Orange Pi is the hungry one at 12W, the Radxa is amazing efficient. Both running Armbian. I want to add a third but my USB charger max 30W already haha.
The poll skips 200-400W entirely. That's where most of my boxes live. Supermicro X11 with E3 v6, 240W under load, 90W idle. Phoenix power is $0.13/kWh so it's manageable, but it's not nothing.
