Christ, this isn't a Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt novel! Piracy in the Gulf of Alaska isn't yet a thing. If he is so worried about assassination, he'd never leave his hidey-hole and would become the next Howard Hughes, with superlong fingernails and cocktails made from his own urine.

It must be true because most $300M yachts can afford only a single radio so that when they're downloading the latest stock prices or ordering a resupply of steaks and champagne, they can't monitor the Coast Guard emergency channel. And even, if later, they hear the call but a rescue is underway, who needs a backup vessel in case something happens to the primary rescue boat.

I'm sure they're doing just fine. It's probably in their contract with the power company that their needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.

Meanwhile, the data center will consume the equivalent of neighborhoods of reidential houses 24 hours/day, 365 days/year. They won't have caps imposed and will probably receive discounts that allow them water at a price order of magnitude less than the homeowners. When rolling blackouts come, they'll skip the data centers and extend the duration on everyone else.

BTW, it sounds like your town is in dire need of a recall.

We are always being told by the billionaire tech bros and the county supervisors they pay off to have these monstrosity put in their countie that they won't consume resources nor will electricity rates go up. They're lying as this story points out quite clearly. The already wealthy pocket huge profits while the citizens bear the costs.

Passenger: Hey, you just sped pass that Bridge Out sign!

Johnny Cab Auto-driver: Nah. It'll be fine.

More contracts for Don, Jr.

As it were

The venues will be protected by guards wielding those large electric cattle prods used in Jurassic Park to attempt to calm 'roid rage occurances.

The opening ceremonies to be hosted by Lance Armtrong, Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, and Sammy Sosa. Entertainment provided by the East German Women's Shotput team.

Are you not entertained?

Obviously, once they lost Bell Labs, all that legacy knowledge left as well.

Preparation techiques are the key

Bet you’ve never been laid off by one, either

It isn't just the fat bastards fault, it's the entire GOP. They have underfunded public education since the raygun era and have been trying to fund xtian private schools to further starve it. It's also why they've defunded PBS and other education-related resources. Having an ignorant and dumb population (think MAGA) makes controlling people much easier when the ability to think logically and to reason is lost. It makes people vote against their own self-interests which is why congress can continually vote for lower taxes on billionaires and against programs (Social Security, health care, education) that help the lower and middle classes.