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Re:Hetzner Price Adjustment by Gasp0de on Thursday August 11, 2022 @10:24AM (#32426114)
You probably live in the USA, because 200w 24/7 would cost me about 600€/year which is definitely significant.
Re:Hetzner Price Adjustment by happyopossum on Thursday August 11, 2022 @11:53AM (#32427603)
I live in the USA - California, and 150W 24/x would cost about $550/yr. In fact it would cost me a lot more, as my family shifted to time-of-use billing to save money (yeah, it means we don't do certain things between 4-8pm, but with some adjustment it's made a difference in our bills).
Re:Hetzner Price Adjustment by collegeburner on Thursday August 11, 2022 @11:42AM (#32427437)
one of the upsides to living in texas, lots of cheap wind power lol. even with more expensive electricity i can still run old hardware for cheap. means less e waste also.
Re:Hetzner Price Adjustment by delroth on Thursday August 11, 2022 @11:55AM (#32427648)
https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-TEX-ERCO

Your cheap TX electricity is, unsurprisingly, mostly gas. And if you look at data from 12h ago it was more coal than wind.

Re:Hetzner Price Adjustment by Scoundreller on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:53PM (#32429425)
Yearly averages are probably the most sensible to look at. Wind is at 20% which is still nothing to sneeze at:

> According to ERCOT, nearly half of Texas’ electricity was generated by natural gas-fired power plants in 2019. Coal-fired plants and wind power each generated about 20 percent, while the state’s two nuclear power plants — the South Texas Project near Bay City and Comanche Peak near Glen Rose — supplied a total of 11 percent. Solar, hydroelectric and biomass resources provided most of the remainder

https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/2020/augu...