What about random information?

Even if they don't pollute all the time, consider when a "power emergency" will be most likely. One common situation is when there is a stagnant heat dome sitting on the area forcing everyone to crank up their A/C.

Then the data centers will fire up their gas and diesel generators with short exhaust stacks, and with no wind all those fumes will just linger in the general vicinity.

Gee, if a counterfeit lithium ion battery peddled by Amazon burns your house down, you get to sort it out in small claims court.

Or else let some guy whose salary ultimately comes from Amazon decide whether they're liable.

People thought that I was crazy for wearing this sharply angled black stealth suit.

Who's laughing now?

I'm not sure many lizards could survive in the desert, without water, with 30% CO in the air, and, on top of that, given the current geopolitical situation, after a few thousand H-bombs have exploded all over the place...

Time to turn in your geek card. A "watt" is a unit of *power*. People pay for *energy*. Energy = power X time.

Electricity is often sold in energy units called kWh (which is 3.6 megajoules). At a retail price of 20 cents/kWh, five dollars of electric ital energy is 25 kWh.

With a power consumption rate of 1000 kW, that amount of energy is used in 90 seconds. Presumably, the 1MW peak power rate was only used briefly, just like a car with a 300hp peak power engine usually cruises around only generating a couple of dozen hp.

Well, you cannot say for sure that the Universe is spherical.

"justify"? Where did you get that from?

I'm not familiar with that game, but this story does remind me of Missile Command.

in every sense of the word.

Have you checked the iPhone prices recently?

In some other countries, this kind of behavior from the head of state would spark a wave of revolutionary sentiment.
In the U.S., everything goes through without much of a hitch. That's also alarming.

Look, you didn't get the memo. Stay on message. It's the democrat governor.

You're overthinking this.

The top of the blame flowchart starts with: "If state has democrat governor: blame democrat governor; Goto end."

"Blame the environmentalists" is several layers down in the other branches of the flowchart.

Rather, the world is lamenting the consequences of this stupid government.