[ChainOfFools]

As if by magic, right around 2 years ago almost everywhere up and down the residential area where I live a bunch of brand new F-150s and the like all showed up almoat simultaneously in the driveways of every two-bit small trade business that could possibly somehow qualify as supporting "critical infrastructure" , like... junk hauling and muffler repair and driveway paving contractors, always LLCs and typically operated by Guy in a Punisher Shirt and his sole employee/cousin/wife/son.

How many of these PPP loans got forgiven is apparently close to 100%, as it is evident a lot of these clowns had plenty of spare money to modify whats supposed to be their work truck into a lane swallowing, coal rolling, baby-on-board family car crushing, eye-level LED light bar festooned rolling death threat / mid life crisis costume accessory.

[hnreport]

Reminds me of people in housing projects maxing out their AC all year because electricity was free (and having big screen tvs and shit).

Humans will take advantage.

[ChainOfFools]

I know of at least one operation that happened in SW DC where some small-time Bitcoin mining hucksters managed to set up a bunch of rigs in a handful of low-income-area apartment blocks (Syphax Gardens area). not sure if the units rhemselves were low income or not but the entire building group was set up to meter electricity and cooling as a whole rather than by unit. So they paid (possibly subsidized) rent for a cheap, fire hazard "data center" space and got free electricity and cooling out of it for at least a year before people figured out what they were up to.

How on earth the neighbors ignored the maddening fan noise of those things ( there are a couple in the data center space I lease from, and you can hear the single rack that they occupy from several aisles away, far louder than all of the industrial grade servers and hardware installed all around them) I cannot imagine, but the miners probably couldn't run that many rigs given the perhaps 50A or 100A total available to each unit.

[quickthrowman]

> I cannot imagine, but the miners probably couldn't run that many rigs given the perhaps 50A or 100A total available to each unit.

60A @ 240v is a common residential load center size, 14.4kW is max load it’s a main lug only panel fed by a disconnect fused at 60A, and 11.5kW if the panel has a 60A main circuit breaker. Upping that to 100A yields 24kW and 19.2kW, respectively.

I’m not sure what a miner uses for energy, but assuming 500w, you could get 13 on a 60A panel without any other loads present.

[imtringued]

How long until people drive semi trucks and are too lazy to not bring the trailer to work?

[FooBarBizBazz]

In fairness, they do live in that trailer. Unlike houses, roads are free.