you’re vastly underestimating how destructive a typical oil field is, and overestimating nuclear.

An average oil field will produce tens of millions of barrels of oil per year which releases tens of millions of tons of CO2 per year.

Assuming a worst case datacenter pulling few hundred MW continuously on a coal power grid, it would be a few million tons of CO2 per year, like an order of magnitude less. But most of the time datacenters are running on natural gas which is slightly cleaner and more efficient than coal. And most datacenters are not using hundreds of MW.

As for nuclear, it’s pretty much 100% clean energy after its initial facility construction. Incidentally, they are working on building datacetners with small modular reactors. The benefit there is they can skip connections to the power grid which is the main bottleneck for getting datacenters operational now.

Your town definitely hosts services for your local population, just not an entire datacenter’s worth. No single town needs an entire datacenter.

literally no one calls a single server a datacenter, and there is no reason to. If you did, then you’d just need to come up with a new term for datacenters. for what? Just use the term the way everyone else does.

I know how safe they haven’t been - so that’s something.

do you? Nuclear, Solar, and Wind are all roughly equally safe.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

meanwhile leaving their own countries lagging behind. “America First” lol.

but hey, at least he totally fixed the middle east and egg prices, right?

Let’s be real, the vast majority of pickup owners aren’t long hauling or towing anything. Just like the vast majority of SUV owners aren’t offroading. It’s an identity they’ve been fed by auto manufacturers to sell them bigger, more profitable vehicles.

77 million people voted for this moron to run the country. For a second time.

So yes, i fully believe less than 1% of them bought trump phones.

unmitigated audacity to title this blog “building for the future”. i know PR is gonna PR but jfc.

why is a darth vader version of anything white?

in 25 years you’ll be able to pirate and emulate whatever PS5 games you want.

costs that just get passed onto the consumer anyway.

the “surveillance” seems to happen on the car locally. Kind of an expansion of current driver attention systems to include impairment detection.

So the other explanation is that apple announced a few years ago that they were going to scan people’s devices for known CSAM hashes and report any matches to authorities.

This was only for icloud photos, and the reason they were considering that was to keep your photos encrypted in the cloud. this way the photos are analyzed locally on your device and kept private, unless they are found to be problematic obviously.

that has always been a thing, i was just listing the new fun stuff.

You’ll need to verify your age by June or lose access to PlayStation social features.

don’t threaten me with a good time.

that appears to be OP’s headline, not from The Verge.

climate change, school shootings, fascists, pandemics, AI, gambling… what’s one more thing?

try that with the drone in the article. ain’t gonna work buddy.

not nearly enough surface area to power a drone.