i unplugged everything cept the new nas. this is the nas with 4x 3.5’’ hdds, 3x m.2 nvme ssds, with 22 or so docker containers running, 4 fans in the nas u4 casing.
router, switches, desktop pc not tallied in.
but yeah… this is a far cry from the low power nas builds out there. but the ones i see often quote, 15 watts? surely that is without hard drives installed yet? 
i was aiming for 50w or less, but 77-80w is ok… 
most of my 10g stuff is using sfp+ 10g fiber optic transceivers (passive). So less power for those components at least for 10g 
So what does the build cost for electricity?
$2.55 monthly in electricity assuming it’s 80w per hour and i didnt mess up the calculations (dont think i did since i followed all the steps). For me this is ok
sauce
about 10w per 12tb drive. so lets call it 40w. so the rest of the parts were sipping the other 40w 
compared to other user builds
That’s not really a home lab, is it?
I measure the total consumption of all my machines which is a nice round 200 W at the moment. 1 TN CORE, 1 ESXi with a hybrid TN SCALE, 1 OPNsense, a TuringPi I, switches, DSL modem …
That’s about 45€ per month - if I did not forget to update my energy fee in the monitoring settings, which I need to check tomorrow.
But to repeat myself, a NAS with any real value, private or business, and a bunch of spinning drives, 60 W is in my experience as low as you can get. And pretty good, anyway. Think of standard tower machines two decades ago that served as workplace PCs … we have so much computing power at our disposal today, it’s mind boggling.
since he is tallying other stuff (router, switches, workstations etc), mine is 300w total 
but based on his comment (only for the nas), mine is 20w higher than the typical 60w nas builds so i don’t think i did too bad for my first diy nas build.