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Originally Posted by ratinox
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 |
I said 6 cents. Oh and average means all prices divided by all buyers so some will be higher and some will be lower.
You just overestimated again. I would bet that the electric output might be 10% but here is the catch, Amazon sells other stuff besides just e-books.
If I had to guess I would say that electricity would be less than 5% of their total revenue.
Logically I would say Amazon probably has a contract with the electric provider for 5 cents a kw hour.
Without looking at your location, do you have your choice of electric companies or is there only one?