Yes, Officer, a server farm.
This has actually happened a few times now. Police raiding bitcoin miners homes because they think its a grow house.
The LAPD did one recently on a medical imaging office because apparently it’s suspicious that an office full of XRAY and MRI machines uses a lot of power.
Is that the one where the idiot cop got his gun stuck in the MRI and hit the emergency button to shut it down?
My favorite is the cop baiters. It’s illegal to use IR to identify grow houses in whatever state they operate in, so they aluminum foil the heck out of a house and crank the heat so it stands out. When the police come in based off a nonexistent anonymous tip, they’re basically caught breaking the law red handed.
Can’t find the video but I’ll keep looking.
This seems like a terrible idea. Even if you’re not committing any crime why would you want cops to pay attention to you?
Do you mean Barry Cooper with KopBusters?
Formerly a police officer in Texas, Cooper is best known for KopBusters, a series of online videos in which he attempts to document police misconduct, and Never Get Busted Again, a series of videos aimed at teaching citizens how to evade false arrest by the police.
You probably meant this Video about it that went viral.
The author is German, and cannabis is currently decriminalized in Germany. Not saying there’s zero reason to have a clandestine growing operation, but the need isn’t as pressing as it usually is.
Cannabis being decriminalized does not mean there aren’t huge grow ops still. Most people who smoke cannot or don’t want to grow their own.
This is an attic insulation issue. If your attic was insulated enough, you would have snow on the roof.
The heat transfer out the roof is dependent only on the indoor temperature, the outdoor temperature, and the attic’s insulation. None of those parameters depend on whether or not you are running a server farm (unless the server farm is so powerful that it increases the indoor temperature to uncomfortable levels, and prevents the furnace from even running.
You have never visited /r/homelab, right? There are people with home server farms that draw multiple kilowatts. That will absolutely heat up your room to unconformable levels unless you have ample air conditioning
Yes… “server farm”… sure. Around here a house producing that much attic heat is farming alright; but usually oregano or other herbs…
Did anyone else see the comic, and get confused why the roof had blood all over the other two houses?
Took me a good 10 seconds to be like “oooooh…”
I’m just waking up. I guess the lesson here is, don’t wake up.
Hey, that gives me an idea. Bonsai weed, small enough to run its full lifecycle within the confines of a PC case.