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That's quite the tall order for a lot of the now 'bread and butter' of this bubble. Some of these systems are needing over 25 kilowatts now, being fed by 8 C19 connections.
And that's ignoring the ones that just dump a crapton over a 48VDC bus bar and don't have anything even vaguely approaching decent residential electrical hookup friendly.
While most will bemoan that the systems will be too loud and the gpus not really interesting for gaming, the sheer power supply issue is beyond what we've seen in datacenters historically. Usually the most egregious was still a few kilowatts over C19, which awkward but doable in residential in certain circumstances. Now we are talking dedicating half your residential service to breakers and outlets to feed the servers.