"Data centers are probably having only a small effect on residential electricity prices."

So... 4%, which is double the target inflation rate and is solely due to datacenters... is "small"? That's the increase the researchers indicate is due to datacenters, meaning that's on top of inflation factors.

No thanks. Even if the 4% is spread over the 5 years, nearly 1% a year is also too damned much.

If a new subdivision is built and real people live there creating demands on services, that's understandable. If new industrial or commercial developments that create jobs and products is built and that creates demands on services, that's understandable. Yes, there are datacenters that provide things we apparently want such as hosting DoorDash or Amazon or porn sites. But the current rush is about AI, which is being shoved where it isn't asked-for, like Red Dye #3.

If the results of this study was a tenth of a percent per year or less, maybe it'd be "small". This isn't.

The person you're replying to said "as someone from a northern climate". They're telling you that regardless of the DST changes, where they live, school starts while it's dark some of the time.

How many kids in kindergarten to grade two are walking (busy) country roads to school? Sounds unlikely and rare. Rural kids are typically transported to/from school by bus, specifically because walking - light or dark - isn't practical.

The "kids in the dark" thing is just boogeyman fearmongering.

Well, obviously.

It doesn't disproportionately impact black people, transfer private wealth to 1% of the population, treat non-straight people worse than animals, or spread trivially-discounted lies about scientific and medical facts... so it can't be from the mind of a conservative.

Conservative trolls don't do well here.

I now am dependent in part for my livelihood on paypal. Going to check my contact info there now.

https://informationr.us/

Statistical contortions might provide copium, but don't prove anything. I gave you a straightforward parameter median household income. Something economists have been using for generations. You had to cherry-pick — and your cherry is rotten, because you complained about the period of COVID lock-downs, much of it presided over by your champion.

And you provided no citations. No wonder, your moderation is so high :)

God's going to get pissed off if you keep bugging him for shit He took care of 24 hours earlier.

Also Trump is wrecking the economy and nobody wants to acknowledge that

Because it just is not true. Median household incomes in the US are just steadily rising (inflation-adjusted) since he took office in 2024.

Linus Torvalds is at the top. He's a great programmer and he doesn't have to worry about the negative effects of AI. He can take just the good parts. But humanity as a whole cannot do that. He's missing the point.

that presented themselves as "male" were paid more per task and perceived as more "human-like" than their "female" counterparts

Those complaining loudest are the ones, who can't define the term "woman".

Ubiquitous: existing or being everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered.
Windows: holds 76.36% of the worldwide desktop operating system market
HEIC on Windows: Microsoft Store HEVC Video Extension costs $0.99

Yeah, no. Yes, it's present on Apple devices. And admittedly there are about as many iPhones as Windows computers. But that's still half, and it's not the important half where actual work is generally done. It's the half where annoying people take pictures and send them to people that need to jump through hoops to do anything with them.

Yeah, it's almost as bad as the level of bellyaching from those who insist we just have to do the stupidity.

It's incredible that Apple would think that many users would even want this trash on their hard drives.

You're correct and I lack the mod points to surface your insight.

These are effectively concealed or hidden cameras, which is not the same thing, and that's why the described panic is fictional.

That said, I do think this is interesting overall because it's a question of how human society changes based on technology. We have rudimentary technology that taps the optic nerve in experimental stages to help with some types of blindness. Sooner or later that sort of thing will probably become routine and non-invasive. Maybe it's 50 years out, but odds are good - I think - that eventually people will be able to record everything they see and hear. It's just perfect memory plus the ability to share that memory. Well... I wonder how societies will adapt to that. Will people just wear disguises all the time? Will no-tell hotels become the norm? Will we all be so inundated with fake materials that embarrassing real materials won't shame us? Getting there will no doubt be painful, but I do find it interesting to ponder.

If so much of society is constrained by arms races to integrate technology further into life, then I don't think democracy even exists any more. For instance, what if 80% of people vote that AI shouldn't exist...it still would because of the prisoner's dilemma. Too many instances of the prisoner's dilemma preclude democracy.