Although with tweaking you might get long periods on idle and idle power draw could be way below 10 watts and average of <20 watts is not unheard of. Depends on what C-states your hardware supports and you should find out that with powertop and other tools.
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bizarroland@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIf your laptop draws an average of 25 watts and you’re paying 25 cents usd per kilowatt hour for electricity, then you’re looking at $54.75 a year to run your laptop.
Most places in America you’re only paying closer to like 13 cents a kilowatt hour and very few laptops would be running a continuous 25 watts with your typical server setup, although, undoubtedly it would spike to 65 watts or so from time to time.
paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
Where I live in California, electricity can be over US$0.60/kWh during peak summer time. Thankfully I have solar panels that offset most of the cost. I’m from Australia which also has high electricity prices.