@JSMastah I believe it's this: http://www.allianceforwaterefficiency.org/blow_down_water_introduction.aspx
TL;DR:

The water that is drained from cooling equipment to remove mineral build-up is called "blow-down" water or "bleed" water.

@umer936 What's the "BlowDown" item you listed?

Have another

@BlueLake2 Here's one more

The surprise on my face when I log on to 18 notifications

Took forever, but I found the building by building page. (Have to sign in with my ID though)

I can see:
Chilled Water
Electricity
Gas
Gas Transportation
Steam
Water
Wastewater
Blowdown
Hot Water

Per month, per building, both in units and $ amount. With nice charts to compare between buildings.
Looks like the oldest I can go back is 2011, so I figure that's when they started consolidating the data on the page.

@.:A-MAN:.
This one has live data.
https://energyportal.utilities.utexas.edu/IWS80/?screen=startup.sg&guestuser=1

There's a historical data webpage too that I found at some point

Oh wow, yours is more transparent than mine then.

@.:A-MAN:.
It's not arbitrary. I go to a public university, so all that info is public. I can literally go to a website and see how much power each building on campus is using, as well as how much everyone gets paid. Give me a min, I'll find the power website.

I would be too lol

@.:A-MAN:.
That said, I'm definitely still pissed that they restrict my internet so easily, especially since I do pay for it.

Yeah but then again you could argue it's all arbitrary anyways and they could raise it without reason just as easily.

@.:A-MAN:.
Yep. But if too many people are using too much power, then they gotta raise housing bill, which is worse for everyone.

The power is a good point, though it technically would be paid for by your housing bill, right?

@BlueLake2
I did want to add that I think one of the reasons they enforce it for coin mining is because coin mining also uses power, which is also a school utility (since I'm on campus). I think they really don't want people running massive rigs 24/7, eating power and pushing out heat (A/C costs, which, in Texas is a lot).
Additionally, sometimes malware runs crypto on compromised systems, so it becomes a lot easier to detect if a system is compromised and crypto mining if crypto mining isn't in regular traffic.

That's at least good, but man, they shouldn't get to tell you how to spend it.

@.:A-MAN:.
You get 10GB/week unless you upgrade.
Granted, the upgrade prices are pretty cheap.
I'm on the 50 GB/week plan, and they also scale as the year goes (so if you waited until halfway through the year, you'd only pay half)

It's much, much cheaper than like AT&T at home, especially since it's pretty fast and everyone gets an ethernet port in the dorms.

Wait, they make you pay for bandwidth and they still restrict it? That's stupid.

@BlueLake2
Yep. Technically.

However, we literally have a facebook group called "UT Buy/Sell/Trade/Free" with just under 34,000 members. I can guarantee people use school internet for it lol (I've bought things from it).

Also, my friends and I have been investing in the stock market on school internet. I've made way more from that than I'll ever make on crypto considering I was just planning on mining from my mid-range laptop every so often.

I also pay for bandwidth, so I'm not really happy that I can get so instantly banned for something that's not illegal or damaging to the school - either physically or in terms of reputation.

That's pretty dumb. Wouldn't using school internet to set up a Craigslist or eBay listing also be considered using them for direct profit?

Yeah that stinks. If you have a VPN, may as well.