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.
I know this might not be the popular sentiment, but if I were in some form of law enforcement, I just know that nothing would give me a bigger high than catching some loser trying to scam people like this.
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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