Ask Hacker News: Cost of living in Silicon Valley

Re:Ask Hacker News: Cost of living in Silicon Valley by powerflex on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @03:30PM (#129096)

I live in a one bedroom apartment in SF, and have 2 mac mini's, a laptop, and two servers - all are on 24/7. Electricity is $20 per month.

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Re:Ask Hacker News: Cost of living in Silicon Valley by curi on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @03:33PM (#129099)

2 cpu g5, imac, sometimes an old pc or macbook, don't use electricity for much else besides light, varies but often 80-100. in berkeley. i wonder what's causing the large difference.

edit: i'm buying this http://www.amazon.com/P3-International-Kill-Electricity-Moni...

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Re:Ask Hacker News: Cost of living in Silicon Valley by powerflex on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @09:57PM (#146423)

update: Im now at about 300Kwh/month for a bill of $35...

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Re:Ask Hacker News: Cost of living in Silicon Valley by curi on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @10:39PM (#129435)

>> 0.15 * 5 * 24 * 30 * 0.12 => 64.8

if your 5 computers take 150 watts each and it's 12 cents per kilo-watt hour, then your bill would be $65

they must spend a lot of time asleep or something.

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