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It depends on the computer, but the power usage could easily be 250W+. While not a ton of power, it adds up quickly.
But that's only if you don't have your computer set to sleep/hibernate
Idle power is not usually that high unless you are talking about a multi socket server.
A gaming PC is usually less than 100W and an office PC is usually less than 25W at idle.
~~25W still adds up. General rule of thumb is to add a zero to the wattage to get the cost to run it for a year. I don't want to spend $250 a year letting my computer idle.~~
I definitely misremembered things
That's some hella expensive electricity you're buying there. I'm getting mine at 14 cents/kWh, which is roughly 1.2€/W per year. This isn't even close to the cheapest option available.
You know what, you're right. Idk what the fuck I was thinking. I must have misremembered the math from the last time I did it.
I swear I did the math like a year ago and it added up, but that's clearly a false memory. It's closer to $1 per watt per year. I downvoted my own comment
It could've been closer to the truth in 2022. At least in Europe when the energy prices skyrocketed I think I paid closer to 1€/kWh.
Maybe it was 2022. Working from home has fucked my perception of time.
Here in California our utility keeps burning down entire towns so now we pay $.60-$.70 per kW/h. It’s insane. They still don’t maintain infrastructure, they just pass on the cost of lawsuits.
Sheesh, we went from .129 to .189 and I got rooftop solar in protest (which is only going to burn my own house down).
Yea rooftop solar here got so popular because of the pricing which means they decided to cut the rates that they will pay you for generation. So in the same instant they will charge you $.70 to draw power but only give you $.12 for power fed back in during the same time period.