It's Germany. Regular rates are some 0.3 EUR/kWh at the moment, I hope to be there by May next year. Meanwhile, I currently make some half of my net power with photovoltaics. It helps to keep the costs down.
I'm actually making about 6 kWh/day from photovoltaics since mid-April averaged, which is about half my last year's total electric energy consumed. I might be able to boost that to 8 kWh/day later this year. This is all while running very little infrastructure, for cost reasons.
I'm weird, so I have 10G/40G networking and half a rack that would burn 10 kW when all fired up. My major cost issue is power, which is currently 0.7 EUR/kWh though capped at 0.4 EUR/kWh for a while. I could use some more modern hardware but it's no longer bountiful and cheap.
I'm waiting for my data takeout, so checking old.reddit.com messages once a day. No other engagement beyond that. Lemmy communities are getting really good now.
Unfortunately no old cloud servers or switches on ebay. As such availability of used hardware is more limited in future.
Photovoltaics capacity factor is about 10% of nominal peak where I sit, so you will have to build out massively which will put you far in excess of those current 50% renewable electrivity peaks in Germany. There simply isn't a cheaper way to capture these peaks as there isn't even transport infrastructure for electricity. Alcaline water electrolysis is stupid cheap and the natgas grid is already there. Price isn't a good argument versus curtailing. And natgas availability in future is rather uncertain.
Honestly, dumping any renewable surplus into water electrolysis admixing produced hydrogen to the natgas grid beats curtailing. You've already paid for the infrastructure, and as capacity increases failure to do so will only hurt more in future.
Why do you think it's not worth it? What was your experience running it?
I agree. My first Lemmy account is now three years old and my accounts on all the alternative sites are even older. I really hope they kill old.reddit.com this year, it would really motivate even more people to migrate away and the infrastructure would be more ready for them.
I recommend mirroring whole /r/ subs to /c/ communities using automated tools. I don't need to see Reddit content in /c/reddit -- at all.
I agree. Which is why I only run a firewall on a thin client, a low-power 8-core Atom C2758 Proxmox with SSDs and an external HDD and a fanless switch, all for about 70 W total 24/7/365. Any other server is one of the 120 W, 300 W or 500 W kind. These do add up.