Cost in energy != cost in carbon.

Some energy, such as solar, wind, and hydro, has a very low marginal cost beyond the cost of transmission. Sure, there's the cost of building the plant. Mining the earth to make solar panels, building those solar panels, getting them to the solar farm, and building a functional solar array and hooking it to the grid isn't energy-free.

Now, what's the equivalent cost of carbon? That depends on where the energy comes from. If, hypothetically, you use existing solar power to do everything it takes to build a new solar plant, then use that solar plant to run your computing center, the marginal carbon cost is pretty close to 0 if not 0.

Oh, don't forget the energy cost to actually build the computing center. Building computer, building actual buildings, etc. isn't energy-free. If any of that energy comes from carbon sources, the "sunk carbon cost" of building the computing center will be non-zero. Then there's the energy cost of maintaining the computing center.

Recurse (curse and curse again) and/or repeat as necessary for your computing center's needs.

I can't yet, because the cost of dealing with long-term nuclear waste isn't well-defined.

If the cost turns out to be "leave it at the plant forever and make laws so nobody can sue before something really bad happens and get lucky (nothing bad actually happens in the lifetime of any investors)" then yeah, nuke plants can be relatively cheap.

But right now, it's a big question mark. Investors don't like big question marks.

If investors think the next White House Party Change (WHPC)[TM) MAY make their investment worthless, they will be much less likely to invest unless they can get paid back before the next Presidential election.

Yes, exactly. Best Buy got Napster because they bought Roxio - the CD-Burning software company. LOL. "Roxio Toastt". Roxio was the first vulture to pick the bones of the original Napster, buying branding assets when the feds shut it down.

Invented virtualization.

A more reasonable solution would be to move the ancient drivers out of Windows Updates and put them in a Microsoft-run legacy-driver-download web site where users would need to manually download the specific version of the driver that they want.

Why bother with the Microsoft-run web site for ancient code that only a few people will ever need? This gives users the assurance that you are downloading the real thing and not a trojanized version by a web site pretending to be an oh-so-helpful old-driver-download site.

Your very long sentence was perfectly cromulent.

I could diagram it using skills learned in Middle School English.

Re: your sig: "III.IIVIVIXIIVIVIIIVVIIIIXVIIIXIIIIIIIIVIIIIVVIIIV IIVIIIIIIVIII..."

Is that 1;1;1.1;1;5.... or 3.1;4;4... or ???

Maybe there should be some semicolons around each roman numeral???

Says the current generation.

Doesn't ANYBODY but me remember that "Napster" was actually RealNetworks? You know, the old Real.com that was the Internet's first scale, commercial streamer? Real became Rhapsody for several years. Rhapsody had no name recognition, so they bought the Napster name from it's owners... BEST BUY.

It gets weirder. Rhapsody had been Sonos' partner streaming service - and Rhapsody is also... I HEART RADIO. Now the whole Napster lot got dumped in the lap of venture capital vultures.

And nothing of value was lost.

And my popcorn inventory is disappearing fast!!

I'd love to see multi-decade studies following the thousands of subjects over their adult lifetimes.