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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

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Or someone running a couple of 3D printers.

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Are streamers running lathes or what if they’re pulling 1.2kW from the wall?

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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

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500w is pretty conservative for all the RGB needs…

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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

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