• _bcron@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    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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      1 month ago

      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