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And you might even be able to track them down by measuring the power usage. 600 computers surely pull a measurable amount of electricity, so if you graph the po
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
And you might even be able to track them down by measuring the power usage. 600 computers surely pull a measurable amount of electricity, so if you graph the power usage across the entire country and look for anomalies you might be able to spot when and where they come online.
It would depend how much noise is in the graph, and how much energy 600 computers use relative to the total energy usage of various parts of the grid. If they went to a major city, probably not. But perhaps the usage in a smaller town would show up as a spike.
I'm really curious whether this would work. Kind of a creepy thought. Hard to escape the eyes of modern technology.
On the other hand, they thought about every aspect of this heist, so maybe they're going to power the computers with gasoline generators. It's hard to know what to be paranoid about when thinking deviously.
- gomox 9y agoAssuming they're Antminer S9s they consume around 1 kW each, 600 kW is usually a non negligible amount of electricity to have available. But, interestingly, Iceland also has a lot of artificially lit/heated greenhouses that can be seen from very far away. Those probably take a lot of power as well. Electricity is insanely cheap there because of geothermal generation. Private generation is a thing there as well, IIRC.