That's a societal problem we haven't really solved yet. AI/DataCenters are using VAST amounts of energy and potable water...and aren't passing the full costs on to their users directly.

I'm in NoVA, Data center capital of the world, and we're seeing power bills jumping by 20-30% per year at this point. My usage hasn't changed...the only thing that has is the massive overbuild being done.

My house will have 14 data center complexes within 1/4 mile.

Doubles your productivity....probably increases the power/energy used by multiple orders of magnitude.

A comparison of power usage before and after would be interesting.

A fun game is asking people who their State level reps are.

A staggering percentage have no idea...and also wonder why laws get passed they don't like.

FTFY

*Traded Valuable Real Estate* - In Prince William County VA, they are pulling in $300 million more per year than they were just 10 years ago. Most County budgets don't get a new 20% in 10 years.

At macro scale there's some truth to that. But at ground level, public sentiment will almost always trail the action by multiple years.

And since these get built BEFORE that sentiment resonates with even a plurality, you're stuck with them.

Our County Board members are part-time and as of 2020, made $40K (now ~75K). These same members are receiving up to $200,000 EACH in political donations. Nice part time work if you can get it.

Oh and in the span of 10 years, the county receives $300 million annually in new tax revenue from the DCs. Money speaks really god damned loudly.

I live 600 ft from an Amazon DC in Northern VA. There will be FOURTEEN DC complexes within 1/4 mile of our development.

It ain't fun.

This Business Insider video has a really good example of the sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

One thing that makes this really hard is that sound waves, like water waves, bounce. During the last big snow, it changed the sound profile so much that I could literally feel my hardwood floor vibrate. Normally it's low end grunt noise but that was even lower.

Because of this, regulations need to 'over protect' residential areas, because literally every home will have a unique sound level. Unfortunately, that's going to be a hard sell against Million$ in DC political money.

And worse, *multiple* DCs nearby, the sound is additive. Two 50 db speakers produce more than 50 db in volume. If the ordinance is 55 and the additive is 57 - who do you blame? In a river, we measure each polluter at the source - So far, getting sound meters installed AT the DC property lines has been a no go.

aye matey! Lessons were definitely learned on one side of that transaction LOL

Not a dime for Stargate. I think it was 2004 and I was a huge fan. I'd just bought a house that need a whole lot of TLC (200+ ft of drywall re-seaming) so I turned off cable for the summer. I owned probably 5-6 years of the series on DVD. When I turned cable back on, Atlantis was midway through the first season. I went online and downloaded the episodes to catch up.

Figured I'd leave the torrents up for anyone who might also need it.

2 days later internet stops working. Got a strike from MGM. I was literally *everything* they want in a consumer. Buying hard copies of things shown for free-ish/cable.

And that's how media companies can suck a dick - pirate fscking everything.

The 2A only exists because of slavery. The southern states demanded the ability to raise their own army in case the actual army was off defending Boston when a slave uprising developed.

The 2A is the *only* one caveated and excused as if to say, well ok, we have to and here's some reasons.

Can we stop with the fantasy that a 'well armed citizenry' will stand up to tyranny?

We're watching those most vocal about gun rights either being utterly silent on secret masked police running amok, or actively being part of said secret police.

Not quite the same thing, but If you print your threat/demand/ransom in color, a document is traceable to the specific printer.

But thanks to Trump we have ample precedent to have the gov't take actual ownership in companies should they want a bailout

"Seizing the means of production" quite literally given to us by the a business 'genius'

Aluminum concentrations are already rising in the atmosphere. https://cires.colorado.edu/new...

Launching more satellites *every year* than have ever been launched is going to cause the Kessler cascade/syndrome.

Which will stop us from accessing space, at all, for at least a few decades. No more hurricane warnings.

Humanity needs to stop letting billionaires play with our only lifeboat.

great exceptions that prove the rule.