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Jaz@jaz.bsky.social |
My homelab was started with decommissioned datacenter hardware I bought on Ebay but that stuff came out in 2011 and sucks today. Power efficiency on the older hardware is awful too and it's super noisy for home-use. My rack draws ~500W which costs me >$200/mo in SF. No GPUs to be found in it too.
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Jaz
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Industry trends has been towards higher and higher density machines and racks which generally means a LOT more energy and cooling required per rack. GPU compute stuff (the bulk of the AI training clusters) is all hyper-dense and the newest generation racks are 48V@2.5kA ~= 120KW per 48U rack...
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jgles
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Oof. Mine (just the one blade) pulls 120 W and my whole power bill is $130/mo god bless bfe Ohio
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