I realize what you meant, in practice there's a large amount of legislation around this sort of thing and the people writing it aren't morons and have heard of

I realize what you meant, in practice there's a large amount of legislation around this sort of thing and the people writing it aren't morons and have heard of things like the cobra effect[1]. But maybe I'm wrong and there's lots of investors building power plants purely to waste energy and make a point. We just haven't heard much about them because the joke got tired within a week of operations and they decided they might as well connect it to the grid instead to recoup their investment. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect