r/WorkForSmartLife • u/CurseBloom • 1d ago

Discussion💬 The math literally doesn’t add up

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u/Unfriendly_Monkey 23h ago

$250 electricity? You have a datacenter at home?

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u/cmdr_scotty 22h ago

Heck I run my own homelab and I don't even have power that high.

I think my bill hovers around $100-120 depending on time of year.

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u/Morlain7285 19h ago

Wtf? Ours was 650 this month. Granted, that's a house of 5 adults, one of whom works from home, and we had multiple ACs on most of the summer...

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u/HedgeHog2k 15h ago

You Americans are really out of touch with reality. $100 is dirt cheap.

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u/cmdr_scotty 8h ago

At least we have A/C

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u/HedgeHog2k 4h ago

And what makes you think we don’t?

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u/Afghhanistanimation 17h ago

And $280 for internet. What the hell service are you using, mine costs 50

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u/Nickston 16h ago

250 isnt horrible

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u/Katsu_39 14h ago

I live in ga. I have a one bedroom apartment. My power bill is $550. I also have 3 data centers nearby

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u/Pretend_roller 14h ago

Lol you should see what pge charges in California, usually 2x that at least

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u/thatsprettylitbro 5h ago

Yep! If you don’t have solar it’s highway robbery. A family member of our’s paid like $800 in pg&e. Granted, where we live in Cali it gets to be 100+ during the day and minimum 100-90 at night for several weeks in the summer and we just had our hottest month yet. And she kept it mid 80’s in her house.

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u/PogTuber 13h ago

Seriously you need to be running AC in a 2,000sqft house for the month of July to have electric that high

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u/_PrincessHarley_ 4h ago

$200/month is cheap where I am!

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u/Unfriendly_Monkey 1h ago

But how much per kWh?