Eli5: Why are hotel air conditioners able to get the room so cold while home ACs can’t?

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It seems like I can hang meat in my hotel room pretty effortlessly but my home AC really can’t get my house as cold. Is there a fundamental difference between how the two ACs operate or am I just more likely to crank my AC down at a hotel?

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Hotels have to deal with a lot of different people who want a lot of different temperatures. Your house only has you (unless you ans your spouse/roommate fight over the thermostat, but that’s a different question). Empty rooms don’t get much AC in them, and the system has to respond quickly when you check in. As a result they need to make a large swing in temperature in a small space (your room).

Your house needs to keep a uniform temperature in a large space. As a result it can be much more energy efficient, and thus less expensive to operate.

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