Going off-grid with a home server would take 2 acres of solar panels
HankYeomans · x · 2026-10-05
@Kurcide looked into powering a personal server off-grid with solar panels, calculated it would require 2 acres of panels, and gave up. The quoter quips that "the machines in the Matrix were right" — a nod to how power-hungry compute has become.
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