Utility company's proposal to rat out hidden marijuana operations to police raises privacy concerns
Utility company's proposal to rat out hidden marijuana operations to police raises privacy concerns
A Maine utility wants to be an ally with law enforcement in the crackdown on illegal marijuana grow operations — if it can overcome privacy concerns.
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With how common LEDs are nowadays it'd probably be hard to spot a difference between a small grow operation and a 14-hour-a-day streamer. A consistent 1200+ watt jump at around the same time, day in and day out in both scenarios
Yep, or all us self-hosters. I have a 200 watt machine that comes on at specified times to run Backups.
Then there's solar and batteries. Grow operations could setup a battery farm that charges slowly from the grid so it never shows a spike, and run everything off the batteries.
It's expensive, but solves the issue
Or someone running a couple of 3D printers.
Are streamers running lathes or what if they're pulling 1.2kW from the wall?
2 computers, one with a capture card, a digital audio converter, lighting, etc etc. Main rig might be pulling 600ish watts but there's probably 500 watts of miscellaneous other stuff
500w is pretty conservative for all the RGB needs...
Hey, leave the woodworking streamers alone.
Never mind the Bridgeport lathe-ers milling out 80% lowers!