Actually, if trees are doing this then so will fruit and vegges.

You could have said that better. I presume you meant the environment got contaminated from lead in car exhaust fumes. Hence the "chickens coming home to roost" part.

Or what sort of filter would work?

There is already notable cases of commercial/industrial conversion from coal, diesel and even gas boilers where there is abundant supply of wood chips as waste from milling and wilding clean up. It makes for a positive local news story to say the boilers are going back to renewable wood.

It would be good to be able to remove lead contamination in a systematic way. Using exhaust filters could be one such way.

Here's hoping this is born out in the long term. The idea of Dark Energy being a new force never felt right.

That's what the CEOs are dreaming of ... Until the sloppy reality bites that is.

It's irrelevant anyway since this article is about what's wanted for AI data centres alone. They are rapidly placing enormous demands on the grid that greatly overloads available capacity. In fact, they would've expanded faster if they could've. All for some gimmicky chat bots.

So they should willingly contribute to the public good by wholly paying for not just the expansion they want themselves but also extra. Cover some of EV demands at the same time.

Harris lost because she folded to the Israel lobby while Gaza was being exterminated and bombed into nothing but rubble. The Democrats have lost touch with their voters.

In this case consciousness is just a word substitute for intelligent. And of course, we aren't any clearer on what constitutes intelligence either.

A news article posted on Slashdot that hasn't been stripped of the original metric numbers! Refreshing.

poses a serious threat to global financial stability.

I'd argue that is why it isn't worse than 25% already, people are still buying Win11 upgrade boxes. As OP posted, the figures are going to be far worse by the end of the year, unless the AI bubble finally pops.

At least they'll be ready to laugh, in a knowing way, at all the AI hype. And then cry at the huge power bills and general waste of money on all those useless "data centres".

There is some Chinese numbers that seem to appear then disappear on alternating months. And those numbers seem to be strongly Wintel sided.

Problem is, if you repeat the question the LLM will give a different answer each time.

is exactly where "right to repair" is needed most. Governments have been screwed over more than anyone else.