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ASUS NUC 14 Pro idle power
Idle
21.5 W
Load
—
Yearly cost at idle, 24/7
$28.25
at $/kWh
- Type
- Mini PC
- CPU
- Intel Core Ultra 5/7 (Meteor Lake)
- NIC
- 1× 2.5GbE Intel
- Price band
- $450–700
- Idle (as reported)
- 15–28 W idle (Core Ultra). A lower-end Core 3 100U NUC 14 variant idles under 10 W.
- Method
- Wall measurement (buyer's-guide aggregate + tier benchmark)
- Source
- Mini PC homelab comparison — homelabstarter.com
- Source date
- 2025
- Dataset
- SolvoHQ homelab-mini-pc-dataset (CC BY 4.0) (repo)
- Accessed
- 2026-10-19
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