The Machine
Meade County Local runs on one server in Brandenburg, Kentucky. Not a cloud region, not somebody else's data centre — a Dell PowerEdge R620 in the county it serves. This page shows what it is doing right now.
Every figure below is read from the machine itself. Where something is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Right now
Power, temperature and fan readings come straight off the server’s management controller.
Cooling — 14 fans
This chassis has seven dual-rotor fan modules. Redundancy status: Fully Redundant.
What the AI has done
The assistant runs entirely on this machine, on processors rather than graphics cards. That is why answers take minutes instead of seconds — and why nothing you ask leaves the county.
| Task | Times run | Avg time | Energy |
|---|---|---|---|
| embedding | 101,762 | 4.4s | 40.928 kWh |
| classify_rss_item | 11,199 | 154.2s | 130.818 kWh |
| screen_content | 733 | 503.6s | 28.538 kWh |
| classify_rss_scope | 224 | 53.8s | 1.043 kWh |
| daily_report | 76 | 623.0s | 3.601 kWh |
| screen_image | 38 | 440.6s | 1.314 kWh |
| chat_stream | 7 | 442.5s | 0.318 kWh |
| chat_generate | 6 | 1,562.7s | 0.999 kWh |
Work waiting
Reading and categorising the local news archive is slow on processor-only hardware. This is how much is still queued — we would rather show you the real number than hide it.
What it costs to run
Electricity from LG&E at $0.12498 per kilowatt-hour.
The archive
What the assistant has to draw on.
Readings refresh about once a minute. Last updated 9/14/2026, 7:22:03 PM. See also moderation transparency and sources & attribution.