Yea, guilty until proven innocent isn’t really something people want.
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
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
The common denominator is that criminals appear to be taking advantage of laws legalizing marijuana in an attempt to fly under the radar to produce marijuana that’s sold in states where cannabis is illegal.
Sounds like the solution is to legalize it everywhere.
Only a matter of time before some no-knock warrant gets some botanist killed or something.
How about letting the police do the cheapest trick in the book and investigate things on their own? Like they did somewhere in Europe. They waited for the snow to fall, and then told the police to look for homes where the snow was melting earlier - a potential sign the the house is way warmer than humans need it to be.