A is true. The newest discrete GPU here is an AMD RX 960. Newest CPU is an M2. The Linux box is a Ryzen 4600G.

B is not a problem. As the man said, winter is coming. The house is all-electric and the mini split heat pump does not heat the bedrooms on either end. Those use resistors (baseboards). The cluster could be one M2, the 4600G, and the 2010 Mac Pro with the GPU and a six-core 3.33 GHz Xeon with 24 GB RAM.

Is that enough to do a useful job?

Back in 1995 I was running a neural network on a 100 MHz PPC 601. The training runs generally ran overnight. Time wasn't a problem then, and for home use really isn't now.

Odd. The poles here are doing fine.

The phone lines are buried though, and nothing but trouble. The company's failure to fix the. Is why I got a cell phone, a,one with the price for the landline being higher than the cell contract, and the landline bill did Not include long distance. They really did not want my business and were driving off customers so they could officially abandon the land lines.

The Supreme Court took a look at what was on their cell phone's and decided that warrants should be required after all. The powerful don't want their secrets exposed.

Similarly, in Washington State none of the judges who demand timber wolves be protected actually live where wolves might be found. Releasing a pack in their neighborhoods would undoubtedly change their minds, but that would be illegal.

Safety.

If the grid is down but your panel is still energizing the line do you want to be responsible for electrocuting the lineman?

If you have a battery system an automatic disconnect is required for the same reason.

The standard socket is 14 gauge wire so 15 amps. There is also the 20 amp version using 12 gauge wire.

That's on 120 V. If the vendors make a 240 V version then the same 15 or 20 amp limits apply but at twice the power.

1200 watts at 120 V is 10 amps so no problem in any system.

I was wondering about that.

Thanks for the data point.

What does an Nvidia 5090 go for? That's probably part of your answer.

By the way, I looked up a Beelink Ser 9 last week. That's a thousand bucks too. More RAM and storage, less CPU/GPU. Take your pick.

They have already been blackmailed.

They claim they will not give in to the blackmail.

The low wages argument doesn't really follow:

"The average ENTRY LEVEL TEACHER SALARY in the Washington, as of August 2026, is $29.24 an hour or $60818 per year. "

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/S...

Local employers do influence the local schools, no argument there. I grew up near a paper mill town. Shop classes for boys were very important. What little interest there was in pushing students toward higher education was reserved for the girls to make the next batch of teachers and nurses.

The general principle is nothing new. The local high-school in this area has an FFA chapter. That's Future Farmers of America. You can guess the basis of the local economy.

Another step to the ultimate Advanced Food Substitute.

I wonder if tilapia will eat it.

Fanning the flames that have already started when people looked at their electric bills.

Even more so since half these data centers will end up bankrupt, abandoned, and stick the county taxpayers with demolition and cleanup costs.

Nope.

"the atmospheric concentration of CO2 will fall below 150ppm (parts per million) in 100 million years, which will eliminate plants that use solely C3 photosynthesis. Further studies have shown that this threshold will probably not be the end of the biosphere however. C4 pathway photosynthesis can persist to CO2 values as low as 10ppm. Those levels should persist for another 1 to 1.5 billion years."

https://atoc.colorado.edu/~van...

Look up margin loan.

An example, The bank loaned you 80% of the purchase price. The stock went down, so now the bank's share of the investment is 90%, so they notify you and you can either add money of your own to get the bank's share back to 80%, or pay off the loan which you clearly could do only by liquidating the entire investment.

Margin loans (leverage) are great when prices are going up, but terrible for you when prices go down.

It's not the funding level.

In 2019, the United States spent $15,500 per full-time-equivalent (FTE) student on elementary and secondary education, which was 38 percent higher than the average of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries of $11,300 (in constant 2021 U.S. dollars). At the postsecondary level, the United States spent $37,400 per FTE student, which was more than double the average of OECD countries ($18,400; in constant 2021 U.S. dollars).

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/c...

Throwing even more money at Education isn't going to make it better. Throwing out No Child Gets Ahead might help. Go back to the old tracking system, but with one change, the slowest kids get the best teachers. The smart kids just need a teacher capable of pointing them in the right direction, the students will teach themselves.

Side note, the ways the smart kids will find the circumvent the pointy-haired teachers will serve them well in their future careers.

Exactly, that's $21 million per project they were going to foist on the existing rate payers.

Is an extra $21 million turns you AI project from profit to loss then it wasn't going to ever make money anyway. AI is either going to go bust or become a commodity. Either way the highest cost data centers will go broke and be abandoned in place. The county should be charging reclamation fees as well. Get the cash for clean up up front because you won't be getting after the bankruptcy filing.