Anton's AI Hardware GPU

Home Power

Power, made real

What these machines cost to keep running

Watts on a spec sheet are abstract. Here's every build translated into homes, car batteries, and a real yearly electricity bill.

1,200 W An average home, drawing power around the clock
90 kWh A typical electric-car battery, fully charged
$0.12 Cost per kWh (typical commercial rate) used for the bills below

Build by build

Each build's continuous power draw, what it equals in everyday terms, and what the electricity alone would cost you.

Startup Build — DeepSeek V4 Pro

for DeepSeek V4 Pro
30,600 W continuous draw (30.6 kW)
25.5 homes Equivalent homes running at once
8.2/day EV batteries' worth of energy per day
268,056 kWh burned per year
$32,167 Electricity cost per year

Runs about $88/day in electricity — and that's before cooling, which in a real datacenter can add roughly as much again.

Startup Build — GLM 5.2 Max

for GLM 5.2 Max
20,400 W continuous draw (20.4 kW)
17.0 homes Equivalent homes running at once
5.4/day EV batteries' worth of energy per day
178,704 kWh burned per year
$21,444 Electricity cost per year

Runs about $59/day in electricity — and that's before cooling, which in a real datacenter can add roughly as much again.

Startup Build — Nemotron 3 Ultra

for Nemotron 3 Ultra
20,400 W continuous draw (20.4 kW)
17.0 homes Equivalent homes running at once
5.4/day EV batteries' worth of energy per day
178,704 kWh burned per year
$21,444 Electricity cost per year

Runs about $59/day in electricity — and that's before cooling, which in a real datacenter can add roughly as much again.

Mid-Size Growth Cluster — GB200 NVL72

120,000 W continuous draw (120.0 kW)
100.0 homes Equivalent homes running at once
32.0/day EV batteries' worth of energy per day
1,051,200 kWh burned per year
$126,144 Electricity cost per year

Runs about $346/day in electricity — and that's before cooling, which in a real datacenter can add roughly as much again.

Why power is a first-class number

It's a running cost, forever

The purchase price is once. The power bill is every single day the machine is on. For a big cluster, electricity over a few years can rival the hardware's sticker price.

Every watt becomes heat

All the power a GPU draws turns into heat that has to be removed. Cooling can add roughly as much power again — which is why frontier racks like the GB200 are liquid-cooled.

It shapes where you can put it

A 120 kW rack can't go in an office closet. Power draw decides what building, what circuits, and what cooling you need — often the real limit on how big you can grow.

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