harder daddy

Why did I have to scroll this far for this comment.

The answer is land cost, power access and cost, tax incentives, zoning. In no particular order.

Or said another way, until recently the impact of water-over-use was an external cost in the decision process. Just like power over-use was. Now they both are being factored into permitting requirements and that means cost have the costs finally.

By costs here I don't mean the rates they negotiate for consumption of either water or power. I mean the cost of scaling production and distribution to prevent everyone else having to pay more because a data center was allowed to come in and spike demand without and investment in supply growth / demand efficiency.

You're absolutely right! And the power company has a duty to all their OTHER customers not to let a few shitty ones ruin it for everyone, so they get to choose who is their customer based on them not putting the rest of us at risk for failures.

Funny how that logic spins around so easy when you're not sucking the dick of data centers. And no I don't love the power companies either; but they are doing their JOB by ensuring no new, or existing, customer can ruin it for the rest of us. THAT is how they are "doing it right"

ding ding ding we have a winner. Sad I had to scroll this far for this comment.

You intentionally don't keep them at 100% charge so they can absorb power when the need arises and then give it back.

Why should all the other customers have to pay for it?!?! Also that's not how grid load balancing works.

It is a problem specific to the large user and that same large user should be held responsible for being a responsible part of the community.

Then you don't know anything about how difficult search and rescue can be in a contested environment. Pilots don't carry Starlink, and anything with even one-tenth the powerful is still like sending up a literal red flare for the enemy who's then gonna start a foot race to your ass with a huge head start vs friendly forces. It becomes a literal cat and mouse game.

Combat SAR is one of the military's most difficult challenges.

If you mean that question honestly; they do. The problem is actually making contact in such a way that the enemy can't find the source of the transmission. It's somewhat easier in an urban setting to high amongst the noise. In the wide open "RF silent" desert? NFW am I openly transmitting if I'm isolated. The enemy doesn't have to decode your signal, just detect it and triangulate. Being alerted to, communicating with, finding, and recovering an Isolated Person (IP) is one of the most difficult challenges for the military.

Oh Bother!

Not sure why you were modded down. All valid points.

Perhaps.

But at what point do you think someone has to decide they can't fix the problem, are now facilitating it, morally just can't keep doing it, their departure at least serves as a clarion call, and perhaps denial of their skills puts a dent in unfettered progress (presumes they aren't reasonably replaceable anyway)?

There does come a point when you just have to take a stand and nope out.

And yet still half the times the terminal doesn't read, or the damn sensor is in a different spot without a clear indicator. I can see the slot. I put it in the slot. I would prefer to tap, but the user experience is amazingly somehow shitty in the US. I travel to the EU annually for 2 weeks so I get to experience how it should work, so I have a basis to compare. Some how we screwed up settled science.

get over it.

Depending on the location and situation I still wouldn't go without a PLB for that reason and more.