A while back, I set up a spare computer here as a server. Unfortuantly, computers require electricity, and this resulted in a bit of a surprise when my electricity bill came through. But I looked at it, and it all added up and wasn't that much bigger, and so thought nothing more of it. Today my next electricity bill came through, with a substantial underestimate on my actual power usage, and so I decided to do the maths. Turns out that Metis (the spare computer) sucks about 120W, and is responsible... read more
