Data centers take up land, power, and water that could be used by local businesses or homes. Even the largest data centers need ~50 employees. This is the same problem with self-storage places, and why some places now restrict building more of them. Just not much benefit to justify them locally.

As reported elsewhere, the long lead times have made some data centers obsolete at startup, or sometimes before construction is complete. For example, Oracle and OpenAI abandoned expansion of a data center in Texas, because the expansion as planned would not be ready for new NVidia GPUs. TFA doesn't mention the tremendous water consumption by data centers, a statistic AI companies strive to hide, and which many water-constrained communities rightly use to oppose data center construction.

The similar New England Clean Energy Connect project just came online in January 2026, delivering 1,200 MW (yes, nearly 1.21 gigawatts) from Quebec to New England states through Maine.

*effectively ruled. The SCOTUS declined to take the appeal, leaving in place the lower appeals court ruling.The ruling doesn't specifically include source code, but there's nothing in the ruling (or in copyright law) to suggest an exception for AI-generated source code. It sure sounds like chardet v7 is in the public domain from creation, and cannot be restricted by any license.

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

May you live in interesting times, but in a boring city

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Thanks.

https://downloads.aaronia.com/datasheets/solutions/drone_detection/Aaronia_AARTOS_DDS_FAQ.pdf

You might have missed that Musk made the same claim about 2016, with the 1-camera sensor system. The 2017 claim was with the newer 8-camera system, and the claim was made before Tesla even had software for the new sensors, and the Tesla then lacked adaptive cruise control, adaptive high beam, self parking, summon, and other things that the prior model did have. I'm embarrassed that I actually believed these claims.

The original report is from July 2019, which was a forecast of revenue that *might* be lost, based on "consumer preferences for various piracy behaviors." There's no reason to believe any of these dollar figures are legit. https://www.parksassociates.co...

I am careful in all such interviews to say that Facebook is fine for anyone who likes it, for whom the plusses outweigh any minuses. I state that it's just wrong for me, myself, or others like myself. How can I not be "right" about that?