I don't see any reason to let data centers run their own wind mills, solar, and nuclear power on-site. Your justification that we (hand waves) used to do it is flimsy at best. That reasoning disappeared half a century ago when much of industry was connected to the grid. I mean seriously, why did my grandparents have to let the power company run 3 phase lines over our property if every factory could have just setup their own on-site power. Technically feasible, but such a stupid idea.

If you do most of your business in Ireland, then you're a foreign company. Cut them off from most federal contracts, require them to be double taxed on imports. Remove their access to US work visas (H1B). Those are for American companies.

If it is done fairly it isn't corruption. It's the self dealing and big enough to avoid consequences that is the problem

It is illegal to do it blatantly. But these companies try very hard to do it in a legal way.

If your profits are mostly in another country, then a reasonable law could treat your products and services as imports. Having tacking a tariff on MS office365 subscriptions would give actual American and European busineses a fair competitive playing field in their respective markets.

AI companies have been caught lying to investors on numerous occasions. More regulation on data centers is the right action, not less.

In principle, a nation should not permit the private ownership of vital infrastructure. Such as the national grid or large scale power generators. Privatizing everything is a way for corporations to conceal everything, and pass their costs onto consumers and taxpayers. Public transparency of vital infrastructure ought to be a goal for any society, but there are some wrong-headed weirdos that scream "communism" any time we want to look at their books.

Power went out during a sunny day during peak demand. This isn't a base load problem, so throw some solar panels and wind turbines down. Takes about 1/10th the time to install and 1/20th the capital. Let's be efficient in how we build our infrastructure, but also do it in a timely manner.

I would rather build more high-voltage direct current (HVDC) that criss-cross the nation and provide a more durable backbone that also enables the trading of energy between large regions undergoing weather related demand. This is going to be a bigger bang for the buck than a handful of nuclear reactors, as those reactor sites will mostly be at existing sites and won't include the infrastructure improvements necessary to deliver the additional power out of their region.

And please don't build modular mini reactors. They cost more to operator overall and produce an exponentially higher amount of radioactive waste. As components wear tends to be high and those worn components become low-grade waste. It's also a Square-Cube law problem, in that a smaller vessel has more surface area for its volume. Every surface is an opportunity for contamination. For the most part, these modular reactors are an investment scam. They have some limited industrial utility, but you shouldn't bother installing one within 50 miles of a major metropolitan area, as there are far better solutions. (better = safer, cheaper, faster, cleaner)

The article talks specifically about mortality rate. So I offered a comparison and pointed out the problem with that metric. And then you jumped on my post basically agreeing with me in a disagreeable way. I don't know what to say man

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) 2023 Deaths per 100K:
795 Norway
796 Switzerland
836 Canada
891 Sweden
907 France
922 United States
932 Spain
955 Netherlands
962 Belgium
965 UK
977 Austria
991 Denmark
1103 Finland
1136 Portugal
1142 Italy
1211 Germany
1237 Greece

We're all dying from something to some extent. For example, I'm dying on the inside reading these comments.

US is somewhere in the middle of the range that EU member nations occupy. Similar to France, lower than Germany.

But Iraq an India are both much lower than the US. Pretty much all of South America is lower, where air conditioning is uncommon despite being hot AF in places. Mexico and Canada both have significantly lower death rate than the US, even though they share some similarities with the US in terms of region, cuisine, and culture. And that's even with Mexico having a significantly higher murder rate than the US. But the US has a much older population, and it turns out being really old puts you at risk of dying. And the statistics bear this out.

In your defense, Amazon Leo is a stupid name for it. They originally called it Project Kuiper but that was always place holder until the marketing team could think of a better name. A room full of MBAs never fails to disappoint.

Socialist are too smart for him, he'll never catch them.

You are correct LEO != Leo, one is an acronym for low-Earth orbit. The other is the name of Amazon's satellite network. RTFA

Yes. Every time a tree falls it seems like the power is out for a day. And every time the wind blows a tree falls. So very localized outages from living in a forest.
In the nearby city, people rarely lose power. Perhaps a day every year or two.