Comment Re: It's the water: Re:Is vice signaling (Score 1) 110
So the cooling loop is a hermetically sealed ethylene glycol filled system. NOBODY but nobody cares about that; that is what people call a red herring at best and a diversion at worst. Every large building uses this type of system in some capacity.
What provides the cooling to the main loop? Is it provided by refrigeration, via water chillers? Then it uses gobs of power, which is a concern to other customers of the power supply. Is it provided by evaporative cooling towers? Then it uses gobs of water and a somewhat less power--which is a major concern in many of the areas they plan on installing these data centers. Is it a dry cooler--just a heat exchanger? The process temperature will be too high and it probably cannot operate in the desert where they plan on installing many of these colossal data centers.
So what is it? Or are they cooled by unicorn flatulence and billionaire's hearts?
Comment Re:One thing I haven't read (Score 1) 231
Comment Re: expectations (Score 1) 91
V2G is user configurable until they push an OTA update and then it isn't. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but I could see a scenario where GM, Tesla or whoever just up and decides to sell your battery capacity, or maybe they're forced by the government to do it.
In any event, I'd welcome being able to use my car as a giant battery bank to power *my* house / refrigerator / heater in the event of a prolonged power outage. Everyone else can suck it.
Comment Re: Bill Gates is so happy! (Score 1) 155
Comment Re: That's right! (Score 1) 101
Comment Re:Disclaimer Isn't Shown (Score 5, Informative) 93
You are still guilty of libel, and as the court decided, the false claims were not in the links, but hallucinated by the AI. And because Google coded the AI and operated the AI, its products are products of Google, and Google can not claim that they are just reporting about libelous claims as they could have argued with unredacted search results, they just linked to.
Comment Re:Why not let (Score 3, Interesting) 75
Besides that, many companies operating in both North America and Europe want the same mobile devices on both sides of the pond, to streamline roll-out and control processes for the devices, and if they decided for Apple in the U.S., they will try to strong-arm Apple into selling law-compliant devices in Europe, by threatening to look for alternatives for North America too, so they can avoid doubling their IT structures.
Comment Re: solid state (Score 1) 294
Comment Re: solid state (Score 1) 294
Comment Re:solid state (Score 1) 294
Comment Re:Destroy Them (Score 1) 67
Comment Re: Destroy Them (Score 1) 67
Comment Re: Range of economics (Score 1) 135
Comment Re: Out of control demand for power (Score 1) 107
Depends on what you classify as traditional plants. Solar and wind, you'd have a point. However, coal and natural gas plants emit orders of magnitude more radioactivity directly into the environment in the form of naturally occurring radioactive materials (uranium, thorium, radon, traces of other elements) as a consequence of their normal operations. Fission plants basically only do that during catastrophic failure modes.