that is not good for society as a whole? Notify the police and let them handle it. They'll do whatever it takes, and that may be doing absolutely nothing.

Just asking.

But what if for example, you had a server farm that was running some completely legal operation and you suddenly had your door bashed in at 3 am, your dog shot, and a flash bang thrown into your kids nursery?

All based on your electric bill.

likely, the utility company would be well aware of this operation, being a commercial enterprise (billing is different) and also, having utility company backups in case of outages.

A small aerver farm wouldnt qualify for commercial pricing. You might not be zoned for it and wouldnt want to draw attention to it.

Backups are none of their business (data). Small operations dont sweat multiple power inlets.

But it would suck a lot of power, and require a lot of a/c.

I can think of a lot of reasons a power company wouldnt be told.

by a tall metal fence, to keep out intruders and the like. The power supply was also substantially different. So, I'm basing my replies on that. Perhaps as you say, if the server farm is small enough, that one would not mess w/ the requirements, but if an operation was supporting an app for a business that needs to run 24x7, they would need continual power (they had giant generators outside, fenced in just for that purpose).

Development where downtime might not be desirable but isnt a disaster.

really know too much about that sort of mining other than trying to find an unique ?????? that translates to a bitcoin?

It uses a lot of gpus running constantly trying to crack viable blockchains. Once a new working blockchain is found, it can be sold.

Thats one of the reasons gaming gpus are so pricey. They are also used by bitcoin miners, who buy them by the truckload, which keeps the supply scarce and prices high.

Who knew?

This is about business interests protecting their turf, period.