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Old 10-30-2016, 12:30 PM   #364
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post
I would think kw hours would be closer to $0.06 if not lower. It is common knowledge the more electricity one uses, the cheaper the kw rate.
(This figure is based on half of what I pay. I think I put the decimal in the right place.)
Fair enough. But your estimate is low for the US. According to the EIA, the best commercial rate average in the country is 7.84 cents per kWh. But since Amazon has data centers distributed all over the US I think it is better to use the national average. That's my bad for using my local rate which is on the high side. Still, with an average commercial cost of 10.70c/kWh it puts Kindle servers' electric bill at around 20% of Kindle's revenue, again assuming that the rest of my assumptions are vaguely correct.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/mont...m?t=epmt_5_6_a
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