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
Only a matter of time before some no-knock warrant gets some botanist killed or something.
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. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration are investigating any ties these operations might have to criminal syndicates including Chinese organized crime.
In Oklahoma, farms, empty nursing homes, bowling alleys and warehouses were transformed into marijuana production operations after voters legalized cannabis for medical use in 2018. Police began cracking down after realizing straw owners in China and Mexico were running many of the licensed operations, said Mark Woodward, spokesperson for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.
From what I heard the moisture really fucks up the house.
What I’m gathering from that quote is: Legislation against cannabis is still feeding the Chinese and Mexican cartels and we’re doing nothing to stop it – well, chasing the effect rather than the cause.
lame ass Karen ass snitches 🥀