This figure is already not bad. 40 watt hours = 0.04kWh - you know kWh? That unit on your electric bill that is around $0.18 per kWh (and data centers tend to be in lower cost electric areas, closer to $0.11/kWh.) Still, 40Wh would register on your home electric bill at $0.0072, less than a penny. For comparison, an average suburban 4 ton AC unit draws 4kW per hour - that 40Wh request? 1/100th of an hour of AC for your home, about 36 seconds of air conditioning. I don’t know that this article is making anybody “look bad” in terms of power used.
msage@programming.dev 5 days ago
What exactly do you get for that power though?
The point is that it’s too much power for little gain in return.
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 days ago
Arguably, a great deal more than the energy you lose from opening the door to your house in the summer, once while the A/C is running.
msage@programming.dev 3 days ago
I consider TikTok harmful, so you are right about your last sentence.
But my AC does not nor ever has actually consumed 4kW in an hour.
MangoCats@feddit.it 2 days ago
The average (US suburban 2200sq ft) home’s A/C does consume 4kW while it is cycled on, and in the hotter than normal months of summer it can run continuous duty cycle for hours on end.