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Comment Re:Pay attention to the timing (Score 1) 114

The "new electrical demand" and "expected growth" are usually based on plans, connection requests, etc. A lot of it is speculative and isn't being built.

You don’t need kW of energy to store or host an image but you do to host AI.

Kilowatts is not a measure of energy. You do need kilowatts to serve many image requests per second. You don't need much energy to serve a single AI request. You do need kilowatts to serve many per second.

To put it in a car analogy, you've decided you don't like Fords so you're just going to say bad stuff about Fords that doesn't even really make sense.

Comment Re:Shine On, Football Brain (Score 1) 47

Or would that be un-American?

Apparently. There was a push to ban football around the beginning of the 1900s. It was properly brutal, with lots of people, mostly school kids, dying from injuries. Teddy Roosevelt though it was essential for building character though, and bullied many of the colleges into keeping their teams. He did compromise and push for important rule changes though.

https://www.history.com/articl...

Comment Re:Yeah⦠so? (Score 1) 63

Other recording devices do not constantly record on their own

Yeah, lots of them do. Your phone probably does, unless you have Siri/Google/whatever turned off. So do your Echos, Homes, Alexas, OnStars etc.

Anyway, I doubt any of the laws say anything about "constantly."

Here's California's:

A person who, intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication, uses an electronic amplifying or recording device to eavesdrop upon or record the confidential communication, whether the communication is carried on among the parties in the presence of one another or by means of a telegraph, telephone, or other device, except a radio, shall be punished

Nope, no "constantly" at all. There is an "intentionally" and a "confidential" though.

Comment Re:Loss of pulse detection? (Score 1) 21

Let me know when all this heart rate monitoring can do loss-of-pulse detection and call emergency services if I have a heart attack.

I can't tell whether that's a joke, but the Google Pixel 3 smart watch has "recently" (June, 2025) received FDA clearance for "loss of pulse" feature. Seems like there would be a lot of false positives if the watch is either too tight or not tight enough, but maybe not.

Not a joke. I'm aware of that feature, and that's why I said it. No idea about false positives.

Comment Re:Nice Broadcast License You've Got There (Score 1) 267

ABC has been and is in court over this BS so for them to act like they didn't make any threats is ...well the typical behavior from the scumbags and their supporters are too ignorant and stupid. Trump could say the world is flat and Fox and Friends would make that into a controversy so again we have facts turned into just another narrative.

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