If you need to run cable across a driveway, it's a lot cheaper to erect a pole and run it above than it is to destroy part of your driveway and rebuild it afterward just to run a pipe underneath. If you happen to have large amounts of money with nothing better to spend it on, then yeah the pipe underneath would objectively be the better route to go.

I had a FedEx truck clip a support wire for an electric pole in front of my house. It pulled on the pole so much that it and 2 poles in each direction were all wobbling. The lines where swaying so much that the lines must have arced, and caused power to go out at my house and several of my neighbors. The damage that this drone did was very mundane in comparison. Why would this require an FAA investigation?

While it's true that people are also buying even fewer *new* gas cars, that's because there is a huge selection of used gas cars on the market. Not so much when it comes to used electric cars. Especially if you are looking at used cars that are actually somewhat old (aka cheap). Electric cars will never get to that point of being old enough to be cheap on the used market, because by that point they will need a new $15,000 battery.

I'm a big fan of Samsung products overall, but I've never seen a single person use Bixby that didn't pull it up on accident.

Unfortunately it's difficult to compete with a country like China that can brush aside regulations and ethical concerns in the name of "progress". Don't forget, this is where Covid came from.

BS. Even the wildest dreams of the Trump administration still involve a future where billions of things would use these batteries. He's not trying to outlaw phones, drones, etc...

There was never going to be any batteries. The government money went into the pockets of the people who it was intended for. It's purpose was served.

It's another thing to forfeit *your* land to that 30%

Globally? That probably puts it in the same category as toe fungus.

By "Fraud", I assume she means it's more difficult to impose excessive NY taxes upon.

Ditch the solar/wind obsession and go all-in on Nuclear, like we should have done decades ago.

Are we talking about waking up sweating in a panic? Or just any time you dream about something you don't necessarily enjoy?

Data centers don't exist in a vacuum. It's part of a broader push to attract AI companies to their respective states.

might be a reason why less people are buying. Did Amazon think that they could just declare a "Spend tons of money at Amazon day" without actually offering good deals? Because that is what seems to have happened.

That sounds good in theory, but in practice most states are doing everything they can to attract data centers in order to increase jobs and tax revenue. Every state wants to be the new regional AI tech hub. Enacting policies that drive up data center costs is just going to cause them to move to another state instead. Pros and cons, obviously.