Comment by immibis

> Assuming this was done at the government's request, I assume Hetzner is more than willing to comply with a court order mandating they allow them to monitor and physically size a machine.

Amusingly, I read about an incident like this on one of those forums (probably ServeTheHome). It apparently happens so often that Hetzner's control panel has a special state for it. Server status: "seized by law enforcement" and the power-on button is disabled.