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Comparing the cost of an always-on machine over three years: a Mac mini (M6, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB storage) costs $899, draws 4 watts at idle, and at the average US residential electricity price of 17.99 cents/kWh its monthly electricity cost is about $0.52, for a three-year total of about $918; renting a small 2 GB server: Vultr is $10 per month ($360 over three years), and DigitalOcean and Akamai are $12 per month ($432 over three years).
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