One of my goals with this new computer is to be more aggressive about power saving: keeping it in suspend more often, using wake-on-lan for external access, etc. To that end, I dusted off the old kill-a-watt and took some baseline measurements:
Off, but plugged in: 2W
Suspend: 2W
On, idle: 48W (old machine: 100!)
Kernel build: 200W (old machine: 150, but also took 15x longer)
ML training with GPU at 100%: 400W
So long as I don’t run ML training 24-7, I am already going to save a lot of energy with this build.