Happening in Australia also - the energy companies are backing renewables as the cheapest new generation systems, but conservative governments are throwing $$$ at keeping old coal plants running, so they'll take those dollars as well.

We've also got gas in the mix for peaker plants but batteries are reducing their spot prices considerably...

Yes, but we know that the US government has been given customer data that was housed on servers outside what everyone would call US jurisdiction, overriding local data sovereignty. The rest would be speculation.

Trump might be temporary, but a nation willing to vote in a person like Trump twice means long term that country is no longer trustworthy to deal with.

To get only 30 years from a roof makes it seem like it's built from laminated cardboard. Our house was built in 1910 and I can believe it has been reroofed at least once - but certainly not in the last 50 years or so.
I had solar installed a couple years back, 12.x kW system. Installed a 20kWh battery at easter. We pay a connection fee only, and that's offset by the little bit of return from our feed back into the grid.

Maybe they should just state that and release a HL3 creator tool, let the modders make their own versions. Valve can back some of the solid ones.

The problem here of course is that using a bittorrent client for downloading by default offers that same product up for download by other parties - and that's the copyright infringement that Anthropic are being hit with.Should've used an alternative where you download only.

Manufacturers are just now releasing cars design to meet requirements several years old, such as when the Chinese were heavily into foreign cars. Only the Chinese can pivot at speed.

Glass and metal cans have a 10c refundable deposit in Australia. There are quite a few places where you can dump bags of these and get $$$ in return. Or you can leave them in the recycling bin that is collected and let the council get those $$$ (which theoretically reduces rates).

Enough $$$$ to buy his own island (looks like he gets to write it off as a corporate expense too, what with having company retreats there) and a jet to take him there if/when SHTF. He's probably got a bunker over in NZ too, and I reckon a few more scattered around so that he's no more than a few hours from the closest.

OTOH, if this delays DC construction then it may be useful for those areas trying to stop construction of DCs because of increasing costs of electricity.

Any insights to the above?

It could be any number of investors sold some piece of ownership of the output. Whack that ownership in with some CDS, some residential and commercial property mortgages, some payday loans and maybe a bit of gambling on whether POTUS will get the ballroom built before he carks it, and there's your investment portfolio wrapped up into some institutional investment fund with a TLA.

Microsoft has previously capitulated to the US government and handed over customer data it holds even when outside US jurisdiction. Why would anyone trust Microsoft to secure their data?
Microsoft operating systems are constantly sending telemetry - even screenshots - back to HQ. Why would you want to use an OS that spies on you?

I've been multiple times on holidays, though the latest was when Obama was POTUS. Yes, Hawai'i was one of the destinations - beautiful place for sure.
Unfortunately your border control is beyond a joke, so I'll be steering clear and taking my family to other countries instead.

Your POTUS has also continually thrown tariff after tariff on our exports to the US even though we're in a trade deficit with you, which isn't conducive to niceties. Oh and starting a war that has affected global oil supplies? Not cool.

Oh, so if Trump can cancel the next election, he simply remains president? Or is his presidency vacated automatically on a given date regardless of what's going on?

Apparently it's 5 years, though extendable if you're actively attempting to hide it - which this blatantly isn't. So if there's another republican at the helm after Trump (or Trump prevents the next election), all they need to do is cancel their sub a year before the election following that - if you get that far of course.