What It Really Costs to Run a Local LLM 24/7 (Power, Amortization, Cost per Query)
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Everyone asks what hardware a local LLM needs. Almost nobody asks what it costs to leave one running. I did the math for a Raspberry Pi 5 serving a small model around the clock. What the board actually draws A Pi 5 idles around 2.7-3.5 W with a minimal OS. Sustained LLM inference on all four cores…
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What It Really Costs to Run a Local LLM 24/7 (Power, Amortization, Cost per Query)