strangely enough, the pot growers, coupled with the bitcoin miners all trying to move into the area are the reason we have the power upgrade moratorium.

it *sounds* like they had a lot of looky-lews that were requesting power studies for buildings with insufficient power to them. after finding out the cost to get a MW of 480 is six figures and change, most of them backed out... thus the power company is tired of wasting its time doing power studies for people that have no realistic idea of how much the price tag was going to be. i know one pot grower that is looking for 144,000 watts of 120v. thats 1200 amps for lighting alone... he is gonna need another 4-800 for ACs, water pumps, etc.