European commercial customers can reduce the cost by being consistent too. High power factor, constant load. They can also reduce costs by load shifting.

They have then benefit of 230V as well.

France built a lot of nuclear, but it isn't really sustainable, or all that clean. Their choice now is throw more money at it, or take the cheaper route with renewables. They will build at least some new nuclear, to keep their supply of weapons grade material and expertise up.

At the time it was a reasonable decision. Nuclear was promised to deliver much, and to be fair looked like it might. But now we have the benefit of hindsight, and more important we have better alternatives.

As with all SMR designs, it fails to solve the real problems that nuclear power has. You still need all the very expensive support stuff like a containment building, on-site waste storage pools, high levels of security, and extensive monitoring and safety systems. In addition, most of these designs require a cooling pool that much be protected because without it the reactors go into meltdown.

Of course before you can build any of that, you need to go through the expensive and time consuming process of checking the site for geological stability, extreme weather events, risk to ground water and so on. And also build all the infrastructure needed for a nuclear plant, and develop a proper evacuation plan for the surrounding area.

These things will never be a hut you can plug in to a data centre, and many data centres will be located in places that are unsuitable for them anyway. Data centres already use a lot of water, and SMRs will require even more.

The EU solution is for them to pay corporation tax based on where their revenue actually comes from, hence the requirement to release a country-by-country compliance report. If 10% of their profit comes from France, they can pay corporation tax on 10% of their global profits to France, regardless of any bullshit subsidiary franchise fees and other crap they have in place.

If you were not aware a common trick they use is to make the national subsidiary pay crippling licencing fees to the parent Irish company to use their branding, which means that the subsidiary ends up making almost zero profit, and corporation tax is only paid on profits.

Electricity should be free at the point of use, like roads and healthcare. Obviously tax pays for it, but it's infrastructure and something everyone needs to live in the modern world (especially with climate change making air conditioning a matter of survival).

Energy is part of the national industrial strategy, and national security. To ensure those things it should be government run or heavily regulated, and so abundant that it is free for consumers and only businesses pay for their use. The really sad part is that we are now in a position to make that happen, to do what China is doing and massively boost our industry with cheap energy.

This is highly selective and misleading.

China hit peak coal and is now in decline. New plants are replacing older ones, and are cleaner, and are designed to better load follow so they fit in with renewables. Meanwhile, last year (2025) China installed so much new renewable capacity that the total output for the year (from just the new stuff) equalled the entire output of all sources of generation in Germany.

In one year.

The "but China" argument is well and truly dead. If the US and Europe were doing even half as much as China is to reduce emissions, the world would be in a much, much better place.

Earthquakes and tsunami were a known hazard at the site of Fukushima Daiichi. Just like extreme heat and drought are a known hazard for lots of other nuclear plants in more geologically stable areas now. They failed to properly plan for and mitigate those dangers, and the results was multiple meltdowns and explosions.

A large amount of the loss can be directly attributed to those failures, not the earthquake of tsunami. Water did not destroy those towns, the necessary evacuation order and subsequent contamination did. The repeated failed attempts to clean them up meant that by the time adults were allowed to start coming back (it was too dangerous for children), the communities were already gone and no longer viable. It also had a devastating effect on businesses in the area, particularly farms and fishing.

The process to clean up the site is also failing. It's well behind schedule and the planned method is looking like it might not be viable.

Every data centre should be covered in solar as an absolute minimum. It provides shade and generates energy.

In Europe commercial customers typically pay a rate that is based on the price of energy at the time of use, and their power factor. So they will want batteries, to help avoid peak costs and to make their power factor as close to 1 as possible. Plus UPS, of course. But maybe it's different in the US.

If they have the space then windmills make sense too. Nuclear is obviously a no-go because a) SMRs don't exist yet and b) if they did exist they would require the standard nuclear safety and waste storage on-site, which is extremely expensive and would need additional specialist staff to manage.

Not saying that this company is not legit, but most of these startups looking for investors claim to have some special doohickey or exotic process. To reassure investors: we are unique, no one will easily copy us, and even if we can't make it work there might still be a valuable patent in the company.

Well, if you need cat piss, I got you covered.

Fitbit became Google Health and lost badges. Badges are little awards you get for passing certain milestones, like daily steps, or lifetime distance walked. This app brings them back.

600km is 0.0020014 seconds at the speed of light.

Or 2 milliseconds.

Birth rates are at record low since WW2:

www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/birth-rate

So there are fewer people, but they are living longer.

Which is probably the balance required, and probably explains WHY they're living longer too.

I recently made an Android app with Gemini AI. I'm an embedded C guy, not done any Android development, and I just wanted a simple app for personal use so I thought I'd try it.

It made the app, eventually. I had to walk it through some parts, and repeat requests when it said it was done but hadn't actually done what I asked. Some research was needed to guide it, such as asking it to use a specific API call that properly aggregated data over a day, rather than trying to read all the raw readings and add them up manually.

I won't release it, it's AI slop. It works for me, but I don't want to support it, and I don't want to inflict that on anyone else. But also, I have an app that I would probably never have had the time or energy to learn how to make myself.

I have off-site backups, but also with GOG you can re-download the games.