Our computers used so much electricity that the office was always hot. We left the windows open and blew out the heat with fans, even during the coolest part of the California winter. Our landlord didn’t charge tenants for utilities, instead paying it from his lease revenues. When the heat got my attention, I calculated that the cost of the electricity we used was more than our rent. We were getting paid to be there.
Seems like something the landlord would notice. Though perhaps the metering was done at the building level. So a) the increase wasn’t as dramatic as the increase for PNP’s office space alone, and b) landlord couldn’t tell where increased usage was coming from. But kind of unfair that landlord was losing money on a solvent tenant. Exception to the “rent-seeking” notion ? (Or just revenge on rent-seekers?)
