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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

that’s an average btw. last months bill was $1100.

this month is already at $960 and we’re only halfway through the month.

this year has been lower than previous. I had new insulation installed last November.

highest bill I have ever seen was around $2200 which is over my monthly mortgage.

no crypto farm. though it would probably be higher if I was.

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ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Thats awful, im so sorry. Our entire house is usually $200ish but it jumped to $400ish because they put in a data center nearby and are using residents to subsidize it

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orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I have personally never seen a bill of more than 60€ per month. I have some friends living in bigger houses, not apartments, and they tell they can get over 100 fairly frequently, the bigger ones more in the North can get over 200 in the winters, but even still, I’ve never even heard of anything reaching 300.

But I’m in my thirties and don’t really know anyone from beyond upper middle class. That might help explain my experience if it happens to be the outlier, but just reading the responses to this, I might not be the outlier here.

Anything four figures is just crazy surreal to me. I can not even imagine what it takes to reach that kind of electric usage. Or maybe it’s just extremely expensive, not the usage itself being crazy? I would think living in a place where sustaining one’s existence requires that kind of resource usage would be very hostile against settling and building in general?

But if it’s just personal usage rather than the regional climate or whatever, and an insane price of electricity isn’t the main reason, then I don’t even know what to say. That’s crazy.

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- GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  it’s kind of a mix of everything.
  
  I grew up poor. like, “take a nap for dinner” poor. I was afforded great opportunities that allowed me to become comfortably wealthy, as in I can freely go to the store and just buy groceries without concern. This is important because I always promised myself that when I grew up I would live comfortably.
  
  I keep my house between 68F-72F year round. I don’t open my windows because I have terrible allergies (that my kids have also inherited). at least half of my bill is just heating and cooling. the other half is likely a mix of the servers and the regular appliances.
  
  I have family ranging from 30-60 years old. when I told them how much I spend on power their eyes popped out. they don’t run their hvacs as much as I do, and actually use their windows and attic fans. they also don’t have the allergic reactions I have either so 🤷.
  
  in my old home, 1600sqft, our highest bill was around $300, and that was still high for the area. our neighbors were average between $100-$150. they were in their 70s though, so likely they didn’t use their hvac as much either, nor the technology I was running.
  
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  - orgrinrt@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Fair enough, that’d explain it. I did expect air conditioning to be a big part of it, kind of makes a lot of sense that you do run servers as well.
    
    Still, that’s a huge bill to eat each month.
    
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    GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Still, that’s a huge bill to eat each month.
    
    don’t I know it 😭
    
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