It probably makes more sense given their scale for them to have their own power generation -- solar, wind, and battery storage, maybe gas turbines for extended periods of low renewable availability.

In fact, you could take it further. You could designate town-sized areas for multiple companies' data centers, served by an electricity source (possibly nuclear) and water reclamation and recycling centers providing zero carbon emissions and minimal environmental impact. It would be served by a compact, robust, and completely sepate electrical grid of its own, reducing costs for the data centers and isolating residential customers from the impact of their elecrical use. It would also economically concentrate data centers for businesses providing services they need,reducing costs and increasing profits all around.

Yep, any increase in demand is going to affect prices even if it's not in your location as costs for supply will increase. This increases for everyone not just the people next to datacentres.

Not that the OP didn't also have a valid point.

So reading comprehension was never something that you learned as a kid? Damn, the educational system failed you completely. Home schooled?

No doubt you're right, but it would be lovely to see the people who squawk about subsidies for renewable energy held to the same standard they demand of everybody else, even just for a little while.

Lately it's been the first one, I haven't run into the other claims for a while.

True enough, which is one of the reasons why I'm using Google less and less. It just irritates me that the company thinks it knows what I want better than I do, especially when I know that their 'summary' is artificially slanted towards whatever the company WANTS that I should believe rather than what's actually real.

Not to mention Amiga had visualizers before people even knew what Windows was..

In fact, music visualizers existed even before people knew what windows were!

Isn't that the train driver? I thought the engineer is the one shovelling coal into the furnace and making sure that the tank doesn't explode?

Mod parent up. I use gen AI all the time when I search for man pages and python docs. And by use, I mean I scroll past the results text as far as I need to until there's something resembling a link that's not an advertisement. Then I click the link.

That's not in the job description. Companies need to dial back the expectations on employees. Especially if they treat their employees as disposable contractors.

Maybe I'm old or out of touch (or both) but for the life of me I cannot think of a reason for that number to be more than maybe 1% outside of some lazy programmers.

I'm disappointed, I expected to see the quack with his copy/pasta claiming that EVs cause more air pollution than gas cars by now.

I did not need that image...

Wow, the zip-bomb link is interesting. This is why I keep coming to /.

I haven't been paying close attention, thus my first question: did they manage to factor an arbitrary number larger than 21?