There used to be a whole army of people who walked around town every evening to light the streetlamps. Perhaps if they'd sued the Edison company, they'd still be employed.

Since he bought Twitter, Tesla is down ~30%. The other automakers are about even. He's spending all his time on Twitter, while Tesla is on a backburner (with increasing numbers of recalls, WAY up compared to a couple of years ago). And no one I know would now want to work there. He'd be lucky if his $44B investment was now worth even half that if he tried to sell it (maybe far less than that).

Surely I can't be the only one who thinks "Raspberry Pies" would be a better pluralization than "Raspberry Pis".

Welcome to North America dude. The houses are all wired for 240V split into 2x 120V legs for residential service.

So they should spend $100K on proprietary software AND $100K on a replacement? Good luck getting that into your annual budget.

So your choices are A) spend $100K on working proprietary software that can be installed and used today, or; B) spend $100K funding development and hope that you get a suitable replacement in 6-12 months?

That happens when you only have 4 hours a day of fuel.

If you're buying 80,000 tons per month, you're not paying the $4.34/gallon retail price, idiot.

They way the article reads, they have the generating capacity now with the current diesel plants, they just can't afford the fuel to run them. Someday they'll have to invest in more generation, but it doesn't look like that's today.

Well, it's pretty easy. When you can only buy enough diesel to keep the lights on for 4 hours a day, there's no fund they can dip into to pay the up front cost of switching to solar. It may very well be cheaper to operate than the current system of diesel-fired generators, but the barrier to entry is high enough that it really doesn't matter if it's absolutely free to operate in the long run - there's no secret stash they can dip into to make the initial investment needed to make it a reality.

They can't afford diesel fuel, which is generally dirt cheap. What makes you think they can afford thousands of hectares of solar farms?

A great deal of Northern Virginia's power comes from the Lake Anna nuclear plant, which, while technically nonrenewable, isn't spewing gigatons of CO2 into the air either.

In Virginia, they put them in business parks in Prince William and Loudoun counties mostly, neither of which are third-world hellholes - Loudoun county has the highest median household income in the country, and Prince William is 15th on the same list according to the 2010 census. No, they don't employ many people, but they do pay property taxes on land that was previously sitting unused. If there are places that object so strenuously to datacenters, those two counties will likely be quite happy to host more.

Drobo systems flag SMR disks as failed within hours of installing them. Drobo specifically say their systems don't support SMR disks, so not knowing the recording method is a real pain.

I've already had three Seagate drives returned to the supplier for a full refund because it was not disclosed they were SMR and they didn't function with the Drobo.

I wouldn't use SMR in ANY raid arrangement. Just not worth it.

No,

see: https://drobocommunity.m-ize.c...