1.02 million kWh in 4 years! Electricians covered up the Internet cafe's electricity theft, perhaps for mining!
There is an Internet cafe called "Sweetheart Internet Cafe" in Changsha. It is very popular every day, and more than 140 machines are always full of players. The theft of electricity was exposed because the general manager of the rental company found that the meter did not rotate when he visited the "Sweetheart Internet Cafe". At that time, he speculated that the meter was broken. When he checked it again in the afternoon, the meter had resumed normal operation.
The general manager asked the financial staff to retrieve the electricity bill payment record of the Internet cafe, and was surprised to find that the electricity bill generated by this Internet cafe was less than 2,000 yuan per month. The meter monitoring installed at the front end of the main cable showed that the daily electricity consumption of "Sweetheart Internet Cafe" was 500-700 kWh. Based on this, the monthly electricity consumption of the Internet cafe is at least 20,000 kWh.
Generally speaking, a computer in an Internet cafe consumes about 300 watts (higher performance is higher), and at 50 cents per kilowatt-hour, there are 100 computers in total, and each computer runs 24 hours a day. The electricity bill for a month should be more than 10,000 yuan. The Internet cafe owner simply slowed down the meter, which greatly reduced the electricity bill. The reason why this Internet cafe has so many people every day may be that the Internet fee is low.
Some netizens also speculated that this Internet cafe consumes a huge amount of electricity every day, and it also steals electricity. It is possible that some mining activities are being carried out privately. It is said that there are many mining activities in Changsha, and the high power consumption of Internet cafes may also be related to mining.
In this regard, the Internet cafe owner admitted the fact that he stole electricity at the police station. He said that in order to pay less electricity bills to the rental company, he "colluded with the interests" with the electrician of the rental company, Master Xu, and bribed him with 150,000 yuan to turn a blind eye to the slowing down of the meter, resulting in the concealment of the theft of electricity by Tianxin.com for 4 years.
According to the judgment of the Yuhua District People's Court of Changsha City, the defendant Xu committed the crime of accepting bribes as a non-state employee and was sentenced to one year in prison and a fine; the illegal gains of RMB 150,000 seized by the public security organs were confiscated and turned over to the state treasury, and the Internet cafe owner was dealt with separately.
