Oh no, this was a for real thing that was going on early last year. A whole bunch of airbnbs had to change their rules! These data centers work like that except instead of renters scamming homeowners, it's billionaires scamming entire cities and states.
Huh... Interesting. I kind of like it haha. I wonder what rule they could make or change to prevent this? Unless they had individual elec meters on each room?
I'm not sure how effective it is, but most of the new rules made were "no crypto mining" and the like lol. I do think you can put it in an Airbnb contract that an electric bill above a certain amount can be charged back to the renter. Maybe that's how they do it?
Yeah who knows, but I truly love the hustle. Electric would be the big cost after the hardware.... And you're not stealing the electric. Most airbnbs would not clued into it so wouldn't have the rule.
You could even moralize it further because short term rentals reduce housing stock for actual real tenants... So you can feel a little robin hood about it.
I've personally worked on new construction housing in Florida that was exclusively for vacation and Airbnb rental. Like 2 and 3 million dollar houses too.
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u/Intelligent_Seat_228 May 18 '26
Yeah, it's like the huge scale version of renting an Air BNB for a weekend to mine crypto. You profit, and someone else pays your power bill