J'accuse martin-boundry !

The above post has tells of AI use (proper spelling and grammar -even paragraphs!)
You are hereby banned forevermore from the interwebs for suspicion of tech-heresy. /s

There are 640 acres in a square mile

[Sighs in metric]

That's right, chum. Cutting down trees can bring the wolves down on a village.

When will these villains learn that actions have consequences?

The proper response to being in an area where datacentres are crowding in is "lobby your elected officials to increase property taxes and not give out tax increment financing deals". Tax everything, and tax it well. They'll stop building new datacentres in your area, and the ones that are there will (unless they were given a long-term sweetheart deal beyond your already-low tax rates) start being cash cows for your area.

No. Per the Computer Fraud And Abuse Act, exceeding your authorization (even if you have legal access to a system) is a crime. Access and authorization are not the same thing.

Just because you can do a thing does not mean you have permission to do so.

a car analogy: Having a key to your former employers company truck does not mean you have authorization to take it for a drive. Even if they forgot to get the key back when you quit, that is still grand theft auto.

It is common for police officers who leave the force voluntarily to retain their data access credentials. For years. Decades in some cases. As long as they do not offend someone high-ranking, they keep their police access to search records. Quite a few Private Investigators go their whole career misusing former police access to databases.

Once an official credential is in the system, it is there until revoked -not until the officer leaves the force. The databases are not tied to an individual police force, and it is common for credentialed officers to move to another police force. Think of it like a security clearance -you need a reason to get one, but it can follow you to a new posting. There is not a well managed revocation process for police access credentials.

Really, you don't see any difference between Elon Musk and, say, John Stankey? Is John Stankey actively transforming the US into an autocratic fascist-adjacent state?

Would you buy from a company called Plantations Inc which proudly advertises that all of its products are made by daily-whipped slaves? Are there no limits to how self-focused you are in your consumption?

It's one thing to say "this particular issue isn't mine, so I'm only going to think amount myself". It's an entirely different issue to have no moral bounds.

This headline sounds like something you'd hear coming from a news report on a TV in the background near the start of a horror movie.

Someone should invent some sort of energy storage device. We could call it a "battery". It would revolutionize the energy sector.

The problem is not overall capacity. It's that they're all crowding into the same areas. Most places in the US (let alone the world) have nobody building datacentres anywhere near them. They all want to go into the places with not merely cheap power, but cheap property taxes and other incentives. Some places will tax everything, down to the servers themselves, whereas some will only tax the land and the building shell, not even the power interconnects or cooling systems.

When everyone wants to rush into the same place, it overtaxes the local grid; they have to build not just more generation, but power lines, substations, etc. And all of this has to go through permitting. There's no real limit to how much generation can be built, but none of the datacentre operations want to wait, because they're all worried about missing out on the opportunity. Hence the reason that they try to come up with stopgaps, like installing their own generators, or... this approach.

ECL MV1 / Lambda is 3,5 miles from the Googleplex. And 10-12 miles further to the southeast, Santa Clara is one of the densest datacentre hubs on Earth.

If you care about where they actually live, and distances to datacentres:

Sundar Pichai: Los Altos Hills, CA: ECL MV1 / Lambda (Mountain View), 5-6mi; Santa Clara Data Center Hub (CoreSite SV9, Vantage, Colovore), 9-11 miles

Larry Page: Palo Alto, Ca: ECL MV1 / Lambda (Mountain View), 4-5mi; Santa Clara Data Center Hub, 10-12mi.

Sergey Brin: Los Altos Hills / Bay Area: ECL MV1 / Lambda (Mountain View), 5-7mi; Santa Clara Data Center Hub, 9-12mi

Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind CEO): North London, UK: London Docklands Hub (Telehouse / Equinix), 7-9mi; Slough Data Center Hub (Equinix, Yondr), 18-20mi

I don't know about you, but they're all way closer to datacentres than I am.

Somebody missed Y2K.

Housekeeping is not the guests job.

Hire a professional housekeeper to come in and clean thoroughly between guests.

Basic courtesy should be expected of guests: don't make things harder for the housekeeping staff than necessary, and don't break things. But cleaning and sanitization is part of the business of running a hotel -and that is the business an AirBnB host is in.

Yes. Soldiers shooting people with bullets see and hear what they are doing, and to whom. They should see and hear the dead and the dying crying out at the base of the wall they are defending, not just assume that what they are doing is harmless because it is invisible.

If you are going to be brutal, you should bear the emotional cost of that brutality. Every American should know how brutal you are being in their name so that they can decide honestly if they want it done.

We are cruel to others because we are insulated from the cruelty done on our behalf.