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Apartments that used up like hospitals: Endesa detects two electricity frauds for marijuana every day

In order for marijuana to grow indoors, lights, heaters, fans and other devices that need electricity to work are needed. And they need a lot of it. A marijuana greenhouse can consume the same amount of electricity as 80 large apartments, each measuring around 100 m2. In Catalonia, plantations in homes that used the same amount of electricity as an entire hospital have been dismantled. In total, according to the data published by Endesa on Tuesday, last year the cannabis plantations detected in the country defrauded an amount of electricity equivalent to the consumption of Canovelles, a town of 17,000 inhabitants. That's 162 gigabytes per hour, 26% of the electricity defrauded in Catalonia.

In order for marijuana to grow indoors, lights, heaters, fans and other devices that need electricity to work are needed. And they need a lot of it. A marijuana greenhouse can consume the same amount of electricity as 80 large apartments, each measuring around 100 m2.

In Catalonia, plantations in homes that used the same amount of electricity as an entire hospital have been dismantled. In total, according to the data published by Endesa on Tuesday, last year the cannabis plantations detected in the country defrauded an amount of electricity equivalent to the consumption of Canovelles, a town of 17,000 inhabitants. That's 162 gigabytes per hour, 26% of the electricity defrauded in Catalonia.

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