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by mmt 2887 days ago
I would only do it if either I actually controlled the software that did the turning off or there were a third-party that could be trusted to monitor and provided an escrow account with a huge financial penalty payable to me if the utility ever broke the rules.

I have absolutely no reason to trust them unless their incentives align with mine, and, here, they do not.

Even in that case, I would only agree to the 75F limit, because, for the other ones, it would take way too much time (and possibly too much energy, as well) to get back down. Air conditioning isn't instantaneous, and one can't just turn it on when one needs it, if there's more than a trivial temperature (or humidity[1]) drop.

[1] For some areas of the country, that's another, bigger problem with allowing an outsider to turn off the AC: go too long without and the humidity goes up too high. Now you have to buy a thermostat with a humidistat, just in case, even if you didn't need one before.