How to Reduce Power Consumption in Your Home Lab

3min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Timothy Stanley: I never really thought about the consumption of power in my home lab. He says he saves 200 Watts a day running 24-7, but hasn't calculated how much that would cut down on his electricity bill. "I think we're getting close to the length of we're beyond what I thought would actually go in terms of timing" YouTubers should consider turning off their fans when it's too hot or cold for them; they can save up to 10 degrees by doing so.

Ok Homelabbers, it’s time to unite! Join Adam and his new friend Techno Tim for 1.5 hours of homelab goodness. From networking and WiFi, virtualizing Ubuntu running Docker containers, to Home Assistant and automation, building a Kubernetes cluster, to gutting a perfectly good machine just to build exactly what you need to run the ultimate Plex server — that’s what homelab is about. Let’s do this.

Leave us a comment

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs.
Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster!

Featuring: