£0.239 / kWhr here, depending on your provider!! Lot's of water here too, but lots of bad companies.
One major UK supplier apparently had 50,000 complaints make it through their 9 level complaints procedure to the Ombudsman, who took them to court. Allegedly they had offered "cheaper power than all other UK providers per billing year". Their definition of a billing year... seven months!! One of many horror stories from lawless Britain. We'll definitely keep Canada in mind for placing equipment. Bill. 2009/3/16 Jeff Gilchrist <jeff.gilchr...@gmail.com>: > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> But it really is a non-trivial thing to provide space/electricity for >> hardware. So trust me, we might just take up that kind offer! >> >> For future reference, do you have a rack or are you talking about >> floor/desk/bench/back room space? Bear in mind that running a normal >> desktop PC can cost £30 a month in electricity. Running a high end >> multi-core server can cost three times that!! > > I do not have a rack so this would be more floor/back room space. If > a desktop PC costs you £30 a month, power is much more expensive in > the UK than here in Canada with all our flowing hydro. Our cost is > £0.036/kWh. But we only have 120V systems here so it would need to be > a North American spec power supply and it couldn't be too monster of a > system. > > Jeff. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
