Spanish cops were looking for marijuana and found a cryptocurrency farm worth €50,000
By: Maksim Panasovskiy | 02.02.2022, 08:19
Santiponce police were looking for underground marijuana plantations, but instead found a cryptocurrency farm that was stealing electricity from the city.
What is known
As often happens in such cases, the equipment was illegally connected to the city's power grid. This is what attracted the attention of law enforcement officers. Powerful industrial fans were used to cool the installations. The monthly loss of the organization that provided the supply of electricity in Santiponce amounted to €1,300.
The farm consisted of more than two dozen ASIC systems and several EVGA graphics accelerators based on GeForce RTX 30 generation Ampere cards. The equipment, which is valued at €50,000, brought in revenue of €2,500 per month.
A source: Videocardz
