I'd bet, though, that we'll see a sudden surge of voters pressuring their legislatures to force power companies to give residential service priority over data centers.
That is the key. Vote out politicians such as PSC members or who appointed them and you’ll get the attention of the rest.
I just asked it about local events this weekend and it gave a startlingly useful list in a few seconds. Cross-checking with sources, it's actually accurate. I spent several minutes Googling and couldn't find the same information in one place--the death of my local newspaper made sure of that.
I find it's very good a specific, bounded questions like you asked, because all it has to do is search for specific matching information; it's when it has to search through a lot of data that may be conflicting and decide what to use is where it starts falling apart.
What could go wrong? It's not like AI ever tried to blackmail a user, accidentally wiped out lots of file, hallucinates, etc.; so there is no reason not to ogive it access to your real world financial accounts.
With all the great financial advice on Redit's various forums, coupled with lots of great crypto investment discussions on other forums, you'd miss out on ways to GET RICH QUICK.
Oh and if you still think this is all a joke watch the safety testing at the end.
The USA is cooked.
Politicians have to come up with some excuse to protect their auto industry donors and voters. Spying is simply the peripheral issue that lets them come up with a catchy soundbite while enacting protectionist measures. While such monitoring is an issue, this doesn't really address the core problem that your car phones home and stores a lot of data about what you have done and where.
As for the "storage and network access cosst are low" argument, a product is priced on value, not cost.
Yes, and what this article is about is the value of the service declining, so people are leaving for services with a better value proposition.
Which is the beauty of competition. If they can migrate to a platform that costs less and keep their existing base, grow it and make more money from a different site, that's great; and SubStack will have to adapt or die.
The other question is what happens when these cheaper sites see the revenue they generate for their users? Will they decide they want a bigger slice.
As for the "storage and network access cosst are low" argument, a product is priced on value, not cost. Generating large readerships that make a lot of money for an other has value beyond the actual costs to the company that does that; and if you buy the costs determine price argument than charging $10 for a newsletter that costs nearly nothing for the nth copy means the writer should also charge a lot less as well. After all, why shoul they make a million dolalrs for something that cost them mayber a few hundred thousand (assuming 2000 work hours at say 100/hour) to produce.
These are purpose built single occupant DCs. It doesn't get any stickier than that. Google doesn't even visit their DCs when a server fails. They just power it off remotely and power up a warm spare.
A million years ago when I got my first management job I had to attend a training session on 'Goals and Objectives', the current in vogue management tool. The instructor impressed on us that 'you get what you measure'. He used an example of police wanting to improve road safety by measuring the number of moving violation tickets given out. Ticket quantities went through the roof but there was no improvement in accident rates; go figure. What was true in the 70s is still true today.
Which is why you have to ensure what you measure actually produces desired outcomes and not create perverse incentives. Reminds me of teh Dilbert cartoon where the PHB announces a bug bounty and Wally says “I’m writing myself a new minivan”
Odd, the ones I have been in to do work on "my" racks, it wasn't uncommon for me to see nobody at all (not even a guard) the whole time.
Just row after row of servers doing their thing. Sometimes I would see the manager or a tech updating something.
Assuming that no plant ever goes offline for any reason and that there will be no other growth in Kenya ever.
That costs money. They were hoping the locals would foot that bill for them.
How many data centers in your immediate area? Are they the modern high density data centers with thousands of GPU units per rack or the old school 4U's in a rack supporting a few websites kind of data center?
As for employment, when is the last time you saw a data center that was bustling with human activity once construction and move-in was finished?
That was a joke! backhoes breaking fiber is part of the natural order.
That's why you should always carry a length of fiber with you. If you ever get stranded with no cell service, you can just bury the length of fiber in the dirt. When the backhoe guy comes along to break it, ask him for a lift.
Typically when using those tools, not every "issue" found is actually an issue.
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