Because the Trump administration is proposing working with Congress to draft a national A.I. policy Democrats are obliged to declare it, what, Jim Crow 3.0?

The ability to not reflexively object to anything and everything Trump says or Does has got Democrats in the street DEMANDING convicted pedophiles, spousal abusers, armed robbers, rapists, even murderers who happen to have entered the country illegally need to stay in their community because, wait for it, keeping them in their neighborhoods makes them feel safer...

After the first bombs dropped in Iran, Democrats declared it a "forever war" and demanded to know not only the objective, but to be included in every decision, to be advised of every action against Iran, lest they declare it a catastrophe. Our fatalities in Iran to date are only slightly higher than a recent night-time helicopter training mission outside a DC airport, but that doesn't stop the critics from acting like this is Vietnam 2.0...

Bill Maher made the same observation when he regretting treating Romney the way he did in the election.

But don't you remember, Romney put a beloved family dog in a cage on top of his car when driving to family vacations, once purportedly forced an unwanted haircut on a gay classmate and (this is the big one) as governor of Massachusetts had the audacity to gather up the resumes of highly-qualified professional women he wanted to consider for important state offices IN BINDERS! Which, apparently is the same name some slave-era device (that no one ever heard of) used to keep negro slaves under control...

Romney was deemed wholly unacceptable by the Democrat party DISPITE his successful and previously well-regarded by the Democrats "Romney Care" which served as an inspiration for Obama's "Obama Care".

So being the fastest growing country in something is easy - just start at zero! I'm not impressed by these kinds of claims, they exploit the fact that Cuba had virtually no solar panels to speak of until very recently.

So Cuba produces "as much as 10%" of its electricity with solar panels? And that's supposed to be more than most countries? Really?

Sorting the chart here by percentage of energy from solar shows dozens of countries that produced more than 10% of their energy needs in 2024...

How is Cuba paying for the solar panels? They used to trade Cuban doctors with countries like Venezuela to get oil, what exactly does Cuba have to offer, aside from a launch/listening pad 90 mikes off the Florida coast?

Rum?
Cigars?
Hospitality (Vacations)?

Cuba is poor, the reason Cubans drive 50 year-old cars held together with baling wire and chewing gum is because they are poor. If they had money they could import cheap Chinese cars, for example, or buy replacement parts from virtually any nation other than the U.S.

China has done similar deals in other poor nations, trading infrastructure projects for access to/rights for minerals, for example.

What does Cuba have to offer China as payment for these solar panels?

I'm supposed to install it on my computer and give it read and write access to my files and my online accounts. I'm supposed to do that in the hope it will do some things I like and not do too many things I don't like, but with no guarantee of either.
Why is that not a terrible idea?

Why does this sound like the a cellphone service contract?

For some reason, as I read this I hear South Park's underpants Gnomes in my head...

"Big profits in 'Lobsters'!"

It's OK because you chose to use cell providers, app developers that got you to agree they. Old track and sell your location information.

Or, you know, stop just accepting EULA that tell you they will sell your location data, and occasionally review which apps on your phone track your location?

Just a thought...

I think you mean from data brokers...

I buy a smartphone,
I install an app that tracks my location,
The app developer sells my location information to a data broker,
The FBI buys access to my location data from the data broker,
And I'm supposed to get mad at the FBI for "tracking" my location?

If this upsets you, uninstall the location-tracking app.

This is fundamentally different from getting tracking location information your smartphone vomits out all on its own.

Learn to read EULA, and if the app developers violate their term sue them.

Seems to me the answer to your complaints is that organizations building anything requiring electricity at absurdly high levels (like a datacenter) be required to source their own energy. If that's the the issue, there's the solution...

Just be prepared to see even more massive datacenters to justify the infrastructure cost of self-producing their own electricity...

Datacenters generate revenue, taxable revenue, that would be paid to local/state governments. Datacenters also have the added bonus of not requiring and significant infrastructure upgrades, aside from power and water (no highways, off-ramps, service roads, etc).

Simple answer, zone all the unzoned areas in Ohio! A state-wide, default zoning ordinance shouldn't be that hard - just require approval for any development that creates so many thousands of square feet of impervious ground cover by a local governing board (city, county, state)...

That's so cute, you think the issue is building massive datacenters on expensive Manhattan real estate. It's the homes, apartments, electric trains, HVAC, lights, etc in NYC.

Datacenters get built where land, power, wages are cheap...

Are you saying the NYT is right-leaning/conservative? Really?