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Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much.
(yaleclimateconnections.org)
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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We fought to make it legal and solar from the balcony just works. You plug the device into your regular 220V AC outlet.
Wikpedia has pictures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcony/_solar/_power
In Germany you can buy those in home-improvement stores or online. Your local lidl or aldi might have one occassionally.
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