For context: In July my old roommate moved out. In September my brother moved in, brought his PC. Other than a mini fridge, no other major appliances. In the December period I built a new PC of my own (had an older one that was in need of an upgrade). But overall haven’t changed any habits in terms of how often I use it.
For the record, he was not working during Sep-Dec so was on his computer gaming a lot more often. But I work from home and also have my PC running many hours of the day even before the September spike. (Although not doing anything intensive, usually just playing YouTube videos or music)
Called my electric company today, the agent claimed that the spike in usage is most likely from the PC. But more than doubling?? I talked to him and he turns it off when he’s out, he used a space heater once or twice but it kept causing power outages so he stopped. I don’t know the exact specs of his PC but he tends to splurge on that kind of stuff so I imagine it’s on the higher quality end.
Anyone else had this issue before? Every post I’ve seen seems to indicate that running a PC shouldn’t be costing more than like an additional $50 or so a month at the highest end. This is costing me like an extra $100+ a month at this point. My latest bill was $300, pretty much double what I paid last year for the same period.