The subterfuge is baked in?

I can see this being used to disrupt technologies owned by foreign nationals and/or competing with USA tech whenever the private tech in the USA seeks government help with competition.
Because that's how the corruption rolls here now.

Charge them a monthly to store and keep their property safe.

...is when the power of the State is used to augment the power of the leadership while fighting anyone who disagrees with or even just doesn't actively support it.

When your overriding primary goal is snatching money and power, and science is providing reasons why that's not a good idea (stop burning so much fossil fuels which make hundreds of billions of $, stop giving healthcare or wage relief to people which expensively subtracts from the loot you can snatch, ...) then snuffing science becomes a secondary mandate. - damn, ended up under the wrong post.

When your overriding primary goal is snatching money and power, and science is providing reasons why that's not a good idea (stop burning so much fossil fuels which make hundreds of billions of $, stop giving healthcare or wage relief to people which expensively subtracts from the loot you can snatch, ...) then snuffing science becomes a secondary mandate.

Wondering (without looking it up) if those numbers for % of energy devoted to cooling includes cooling the machines, like data centers or IT closets, or just cooling people, like AC in homes.

"Tech CEOs" generating praises for AI are all hard-working and extremely compassionate individuals who are careful and considerate and do whatever they can for the benefit of humanity first. They always follow the rules. They're wealthy because they're super smart. We should listen to them when they say this is the biggest opportunity since slavery and sugar cane.

Yeah. Sure.

This seems to be saying that current AI output has problems that can be addressed by using sources verifiably unpolluted by any AI.
Which ultimately means no AI is better than any AI. For training.
There is no clean-room development environment for AI.

"AI is (...) at an uncontrollable scale."

Well, that's comforting.

My first reaction is the Archive is being used to bypass the paywall, and this stops it.

For 30 minutes your keystrokes/visibility data goes into a bucket labeled, "target requested no monitoring 00:00 to 30:00."
This is Dickensian.

Always the better choice. Flag me redundant.

Now even if we don't directly use AI, our PC will somehow, under the covers, be needing and using those thirsty death-star data centers.

Countries? I read this as giving Pu to startups, for-profit entities. By USA standards (!), the risks are unbounded: countries, people, individual bad-actors would sell/steal/abandon it eventually. What a total mess.