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.
I'm just so sick of being lied to
You know the old saying: believe half of what you read, none of what you hear, and the opposite of what you see on the internet.
Hey China!
When you want to fund the revolution against the Epstein plutocracy HMU!
Google's argument is simply a trivial permutation of that slob's "worthless clause" defense, with which he tried (and failed) to escape felony criminal conviction for fraud.
Perhaps more significantly, Google is now on record, testifying and admitting, under oath, that their LLM-generated summaries are garbage.
Oh, AI will stay with us. After all, people use it to make porn - a sure indicator of a technology's success.
But I expect the current bubble to pop before it is adopted with more reasonable expectations. (Both of its capabilities and of its profitability.)
I'm daydreaming about the data center I'm going to buy at firesale prices after the bubble bursts.
I'll sell the computers for boat anchors, and use the building and the cooling system to create a year-round indoor ski resort.
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.
Maybe part of it is being relatively poor for such a large country [...],but there has to be more to it than that
Ex-superpower that can't afford it's lifestyle. Like the US will be in a few years if we don't sweep the idiots out of power.
You are out of your mind with this false equivalency.
For some people's beliefs and values, whataboutism is all they've got to offer.
Well, that and projecting.
People have lost all sense when they hear "AI".
The even shout "aieeeeee!" when some something scares them.
But why keep evidence of embezzlement at home?
Yeah, I think they forgot to include "stupid" in the long list of his faults.
500 panels per 1000 m^2 is pretty achievable, accounting for whatever roof penetrations and facilities that need to be there. Some of those buildings are outright colossal. Plus, nobody is saying the data centers needs to be completely powered by solar.
Here's the thing: the lions share of power consumption on the grid traditionally comes from cooling. Most cooling needs, outside of the context of data centers, coincides with the sunniest, highest production times for solar panels. There is a great synergy to take advantage of here. It might be that a such a data center / solar farm farm actually produces net power for a portion of the day, covering for residential use or car charging etc. but is a net consumer off peak hours, when it's more efficient to use other means to supply power when most other consumers aren't using as much. Net effect is better grid utilization and reduced costs all around.
You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all alike.
