I set it up in our laundry, connected it via a smart plug, and reset its counters. Over the course of the project I would regularly pull package updates from Chimera Linux, build and install them locally, and then push them to the repo, which would trigger Buildbot to build and publish them.
You can select a different currency, which will use exchange rates from the time of writing. The project ran from 30 March 2026 to 8 November 2026 (a bit over 7 months) the total energy used was 98.4 kWh.
My electricity plan is a 100% renewable plan (meaning they offset the non-renewable parts) and costs AU$0.33 kWh. Ignoring the daily service fee the cost of that electricity is AU$32.47 . Since it turned out I was the only one doing package updates I kept the builder off when idle.
