they are refunding the fees because Trump has blocked the project.
It's not as if someone else will pay the $1B fee instead. It's a net loss for the tax payer.

The USA could have kept the billion dollars, allow Total to build the wind turbines, and still find a builder (whether it's Total or someonelse) to make a LNG export plant in Texas.

It's not as if the two projects couldn't be done in parallel. What matters here is that Trump gave $1B to a corporation to prevent it from building wind turbines. Most likely the fossil fuel lobby at works here who didn't want competition from renewable electricity producers.

No, the sensible solution is that every polluter pays for the cost of its pollution. Why make a special case for data centers while the coal plant next door continue to run with 0 intensive to reduce emissions?
Let say there are two possible sources of electricity, coal and solar. If coal is 1% cheaper but pollutes 100x, that's what "the market" will always choose. The pollution cost has to be internalized. Then, data centers and every other consumer will be able to make a rational decision on whether its worth it or not to expand.
The problem is so-called "conservatives" which always fight for pollution to be unlimited and free.

What we need is regulations. We need to:

1. cap the maximum fee that can be charged to merchants (0.5% would seem fair, but even 1% would be a good start)
2. Forbid clauses in contracts between Visa/Mastercard and ther merchants preventing the merchants from adding a surcharge when paying with a credit card to cover the fees.

The result would be a net win for the public.

like they always do. They have no interest in having to maintain both Windows 10 and 11. It's in their interest that as much people as possible upgrade.

but then backtracked in time for the official release?

No, most people don't. Even in richer countries. Pretty much only some Google phones came with USB-C chargers. My current Samsung came with USB-A charger. Not sure if they switched.

You didn't get the point. Most people have USB-A chargers. Most people don't have lightning cables. Most people don't have USB-C chargers.

So, if the average joe go buy an iPhone 12, he likely can't charge it. Unless maybe from a new PC with USB-C ports (which again, most people don't have), but that's not always convenient.

That is for all of Canada. Quebec's price is much lower than that, and is about 99% clean (hydro). Despite harsh winters (high demand).
Texas get relatively cheap electricity by polluting everyone's air (fossil fuels). And history has proven that Quebec's grid is more reliable than Texas's. Quebec's grid never failed because of cold/hot temperature. In 1998 it did fail (although not to the scale of the Texas failure) because of a severe ice storm. I doubt Texas would do better in similar conditions.

Some clocks will count too fast / too slow if you don't have a perfect 60 Hz, but I guess this is acceptable in case of an emergency

I was not even talking about Nvidia.

none of this will improve the gaming experience

Hand it over to the ITU (or similar), and every country should manage its own TLD much like they manage their own phone numbers.
You would not register a domain with the ITU, but with your country's authority.

Why?
What feature does Allo bring that you were waiting for?

Of course the 6s is discounted now that the 7 is out.