15 countries of the Soviet Union itself plus Warsaw Pact countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia and so on.
In terms of population size, it was about 1/3 Russia, 1/3 other Soviet Union, and 1/3 other Soviet aligned countries.

Not the actual bots themselves, they are on residential proxies around the world, just the command and control servers, temporarily.

It is much harder to get planning permission for a data centre in Scotland though.

And local air pollution.

If you look at the data centre they are planning to build near me, it will use more electricity than the whole of the rest of the town of 250,000 people.
Obviously there is absolutely no way the electricity grid could support that, so they are planning to power it with gas generators, so it is basically a gas power station they are building in our back yard with all the associated pollution, except that an actual power station would likely do a better job of managing the pollution than a data centre would.

In normal circumstances, yes, because you could go to a different burger shop that sells better quality burgers.
But, if all the burger shops in the area got together and agreed to sell rubbish quality burgers, that would be an anti-trust violation, and you would have grounds to sue.

Only if there is a sufficient level of creativity in the prompt, which is unlikely for a basic LLM output
https://www.copyright.gov/ai/C...

Using AI to translate something into a different language would be copyrightable if you own the copyright to the work in the original language. Similarly if you use AI to modify an image, provided you own the copyright to the original image.

Anything produced by AI isn't copyrightable, so if they are training on output from Anthropic / OpenAI, then that is completely legal.

Lots of other countries would previously have said the same thing about going to war with the USA.
But when Trump threatens to invade Canada, Denmark/EU (Greenland), and UK (Falkland Islands), then it is not us [I'm a British/Canadian dual national] going to war with USA, it is USA going to war with us.

Aston Martin is British owned, and on the FTSE 250. Very high-end luxury brand and definitely not the biggest car company.

In the UK, he electricity demand from data centres in the development pipeline is about 160% of current peak electricity demand.
This is not about abstract things like protecting the polar icecaps; this is about keeping the lights on, and people do very definitely care about that.

They are. Texas has installed more renewables than anywhere else in the world in the past few years, but it isn't going to allow them to meet a 5x electricity demand.

If there's regular power outages, no amount of campaign contributions are going to persuade angry voters to vote them back into office at the next election.

"I had some issues where I forgot how to implement a Laravel API"

As long as you still know how to read the documentation, it will likely come back to you fairly quickly.
I guess it is like when you switch away to a different framework / API / etc, stuff like that will leave your short-term memory after a while, and you have to re-learn it, but you will re-learn it a lot quicker than how long it took you to originally learn it.

Boom meet bust.