They probably will if you really want to. You won't like the premium you'll have to pay, since it will reflect the risk, but if you insist I'm sure they will take your money. You lose either way though.

None of which is unique to datacentres - all sorts of industrial sites use lots of water, power and space, and produce pollution and noise. It shouldn't matter if you're building a datacentre or a widget factory, they should have to comply with the same laws to not ruin the area.

Not really. It makes no sense near the equator, you're correct. The day length doesn't really change much so no point playing with the clocks. But near the poles, the day length changes too much. You can't save daylight that isn't there - and don't need to save daylight when you've got more than you could ever use.

Who decides what time zone a state is in? "Permanent DST" is identical to "move time zones one zone to the east".

Not really either. The astronauts were stuck on the ISS, which is designed for long-term occupation. As long as they can get (unmanned) supply missions, they can remain there indefinitely. The Space Shuttle was not designed to remain in space for an extended time, nor to be resupplied in orbit, meaning that being unable to safely return to Earth is a very difficult situation to deal with.

Not surprising really. Laron Syndrome seems to have a number of other effects which are rather undesirable - "obesity, craniofacial abnormalities, micropenis, low blood sugar".

My comment was suggesting that we should create hobbits - who don't seem to have any obesity problems despite eating six meals a day, and also seem to have rather robust general health despite the low-tech environment and presumed lack of advanced medical treatment in the Shire. The substantial resistance to demon-possessed magic rings probably just follows from general robustness, but fortunately we don't have to worry about that issue (or do we?).

I don't think the technology is there yet, but it's not a bad idea. While you're genetically engineering short people, you could also engineer out obesity - not only removing the need for drugs but allowing them to eat six meals a day without gaining weight. If you can beef up the lungs, that should allow risk-free smoking. The real challenge is to strengthen the brain, in case of magic rings containing demons...

Why does a datacentre need to use any water? It's quite possible to use a closed-loop cooling system. If they're using an open-loop system, it means they're getting the water too cheap.

So are you saying that no business should be allowed to have more than one million customers? If you're operating an online retailer, you can't really avoid storing the name, address, and contact details for each customer, and a password for them to log in - otherwise, how do they log in, and get a parcel delivered? And if you have 34 million customers, you have 34 million people's personal data.

Surely the obvious thing to do, if it's important to keep launching to the ISS, is to move one of the cabins from another site? The article mentions two being recently built. That would take the other site out of action, but it's a question of which site is more important.

Trucks (and cars) cause accidents, that's just how it is. Aircraft aren't supposed to have accidents ever and must be perfect. No, it doesn't make sense, but that's society for you.

People pay a lot of money to bathe in the effluent of a power plant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

CO2 doesn't cause smog. Just because CO2 emissions are down doesn't mean other emissions such as particulates and nitrogen oxides aren't getting worse at the same time.

No you don't. Take a map at the start of the store and look up where you're going. Look for the (marked and signed) shortcuts. And don't be afraid to walk against the arrows if the shortcut is just past your section rather than before it. Yes, they'd like you to follow the arrows and walk round the whole store, but you don't have to.

It doesn't "run code". It doesn't need to.
It's not a new issue, just a new instance of it. If you have a file that contains external resources, such as HTML, to preview it you need to load the external resources. Which isn't a vulnerability in itself, but allows you to initiate a new network access request without user action. And Windows will helpfully attempt to log in to the random external server with the username and password of the current local user, which is the real vulnerability.
And the password is hashed, but that provides no real security - the hash effectively is the password and is sent in plain text on the wire.