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@mlg@lemmy.world

2026-10-14 01:31 UTC

I can trip the measly 15 amp breaker by drawing 1.5kW on two servers + turning on an amplifier that is somehow on the same circuit despite being in a different room quite far from where my servers are lol. On average though I only draw like 350W. The huge spike only happens if I run a miner/llm on both of my servers or the during the startup spike. The 1kW chunk comes from some RTX Quadro 6000s which each eat 250W each when maxxed out. EDIT: Want to mention that most machines report their power draw (from mobo) without IPMI, so you can use your favorite stats collector use it to form a rough estimate of kWh total in case you don’t have a proper meter that records usage.

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  • @iocase@lemmy.zip 2026-10-14 06:46

    I’m in the same boat and i rent the place. Both bedrooms are on the same breaker and I’m upgrading my GPU (215W to 415W) and might get a Mi50 as a second card in my desktop for local LLMs. I’ll figure something out I guess…

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