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Re:No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “st... by egeek on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @09:39AM (#31179733)
Yes it's huge, but not out of the question for some people who go all in on some things in their house.

For example, in my place right now:

  - Unifi rack (some switches, cameras, other PoE stuff) - 335W
  - Servers (home automation, NAS, etc) - 426W
That's all the time, Unifi actually goes up at night when the IR LEDs come on in the cameras.
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Re:No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “st... by mmcnl on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:34AM (#31181279)
That's still insane. I have a Hue bridge and server at home that together draw less than 50W. Network equipment is also in the range of max 10W per device.
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Re:No, you can’t save £30 per year by switching off your “st... by xyzzy123 on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @09:45AM (#31179817)
That's not "idle" use... somebody wasted good money on those labour-saving devices. And they'll write a blog post about it too once they get around to fixing them!

(I write this lovingly yet seriously as absolutely a victim of this exact same dynamic, sitting next to a pile of expensive fans I'm going to use to reduce the noise from my rack... any day now...).

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