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The incremental price increases between products is funny.

$12,000, $65,000, $10,000,000.

znpy | parent | next
I was more worried by the 600kW power requirement... that's 200 houses at full load (3kw) in southern europe... which likely means 400 houses at half load.

the town near my hometown has 650 – 800 houses (according to chatgpt).

crazy.

nine_k | root | parent | next
Or it's two 300kW fast EV chargers working together.

A typical home just consumes rather little energy, now that LED lighting and heat pump cooling / heating became the norm.

delusional | root | parent | next
I think the above commentor is reflecting on the total energy use from having a 600KW load running 24/7. I suppose the more interesting observation is the 14 MWh of daily consumption, enough to charge 100 Rivians every day.
paganel | root | parent | next
> and heat pump cooling / heating became the norm.

We're not all solidly middle-class (especially in Southern and Eastern Europe) and as such we cannot afford those heat pumps. But we'll have to eat the increased energy costs brought by insane server configurations like the ones from the article, so, yeey!!!

znpy | root | parent
> now that LED lighting and heat pump cooling / heating became the norm.

My brother in Christ, you vastly overestimate southern europe

nine_k | root | parent
I noticed that Southern Europe often basically ignores both heating and cooling, especially close to the warm sea.

But with heat pumps becoming normal in the North and in the US, they become mass-produced, and the prices fall. Same has happened to LED lamps.

ericd | root | parent | next
That’s surprising, 200 amp 240v service is pretty common in the US.
nutjob2 | root | parent | next
> at full load (3kw)

Do you live in a deprived rural village in a very poor country? Because you can't even run a heater and the oven with 3kW.

znpy | root | parent
No it’s quite the norm actually.

Most power contracts give you 3 kwh power supply for residential home. That’s the standard.

Bumping to 4.5 or 6kwh must be required explicitly and costs and extra on the base power supply bill

dist-epoch | root | parent
Your hometown also has public lightning, water pumps, and probably some other stuff.
sudo_cowsay | parent
I mean the difference in performance is quite big too. However, the 10,000,000 is a little bit too much (imo).