Who else is shocked by the actual electricity cost of their local runs?
r/LocalLLaMA
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I’ve been fine-tuning on a 3090 and realized I had zero visibility into what each job actually costs in power. nvidia-smi gives a snapshot, wall meter shows the whole PC, but nothing ties dollars to “this LoRA run was $1.20, that hyperparam sweep was $3.80.” Found out some dumb things once I started tracking: Forgot to kill a jupyter kernel → ~$1.50 wasted overnight A “quick” 12-run hyperparam test cost than my full