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Comment Re:Get out of the way you old people (Score 1) 37

This seems nice, but it really works to push out older employees. Probably will save a lot of money on healthcare.

Wow, how insightful of you - yes, a buy-out package limited to people whose age plus years of service at MS add up to 70 or greater by definition limits the offer to "older employees," since it's mathematically impossible for anyone under about 45 or 50 years of age to qualify (45 year-old employee would need 25 years "on the job" to qualify, not impossible, but unlikely to find a younger employee than that with sufficient time on the job...

Comment Re:Why only the US? (Score 1) 37

Stop the drama - they are offering buy-outs to older, more expensive employees. NO ONE IS BEING FORCED OUT. You do understand the concept of "voluntary buy-out", don't you?

To be eligible you'd need, say, 25 years on the job and be 45 years old, to make the magic "70" number for age + years of service.

Comment Re:They're grasping. (Score 1) 89

There isn't a shortage of water in Michigan.

And then we get this: " Last month, Township attorney Douglas Winters told the Board of Trustees that building hosting the data center would make Ypsilanti Township a "high value target." He pointed to the recent bombing of Gulf Coast data centers by Iran as evidence. "

They're grasping.

Exactly - The Gulf Coast data centers that were bombed were in the middle east - are they really concerned that Iran will attack the data center in Michigan? Or are they afraid it will be a target when Canada finally decided to bite the hand that feeds them and launch an all-out assault on the US?

They are grasping for reasons to oppose the datacenter.

Its a quarter million square feet facility, it really isn't that big - they are talking about a facility in Utah that will have up to 2 million square feet of datacenter floor space.

Comment Re:They're grasping. (Score 2, Insightful) 89

Datacenters don't contribute to communities financially the way home or even factories do.

Uh, private datacenters pay a WHOLE LOT OF TAXES relative to the load they place on the local schools, hospitals, police/fire/first responders and roadways.

In this very particular case, being a federal facility, the numbers are different, but your comment was more general than just this one facility...

Comment Re:Island nations (Score 1) 217

Just a quick followup: I've also talked to a number of Trump supporters who blithely dismiss his rampant corruption, saying they don't really care because it doesn't affect them. I think they're facially wrong on this, but the impacts are often subtle and indirect. The example of island nation power generation, though, demonstrates what happens if you allow corruption to be endemic: People are paying 50 cents per kWh rather than 10 cents, and the only reason is corruption. And these aren't, by and large, people who don't care about 35 cents/kWh difference. That's a lot of money to them.

So where is electricity 50 cents a KWHr, is it Texas or California? NY or FL? Not a whole lotta Trump supporters in CA or NY, for example.

Here's a handy chart of electricity costs in the fifty US states

Comment Re:Island nations (Score 1) 217

It is absolutely true -- and completely insane -- that basically all island nations are diesel-powered. Most of these countries have sun like 300 days of the year, and while they don't have a lot of available land

Land for solar panels is kind of important.

Lots of island nations rely on roofs for collecting rain water (fresh water is hard on an island, the water surrounding island nations is salt water), and houses on islands are typically much smaller, and have much smaller yards than we are used to in a place like the US.

Comment Re: Nuclear is needed. (Score 1) 217

And the banker class is what is fucking over new nuclear in the rest of the world as well. 2/3 of the cost of recent builds is interest. That's a solvable problem.

"Banker class"? I'm old enough to remember when Three Mile Island happened - remember the carnage, the deaths, the environmental damage when TMI "melted down"? Of course you don't, because it didn't happen - that was a Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, and Jack Lemon movie called "China Syndrome" tat forever emboldened the environmentalists to organize a "No Nukes" concert and challenge every application to build a nuclear power plant.

Comment Re:Technology (Score 1) 217

I don't believe there will ever be high speed chargers everywhere there are gas stations today.

You need way, way more "high speed chargers" than there currently are gas stations or even gas pumps - EVs into the forseeable future will require about a half hour to charge a mostly-discharged EV battery vs 5 minutes at a gas pump.

In Canada, there is no cellphone tower where there is no population. So where we need communication the most, capitalism will not allow it.

Yeah, "capitalism" won't allow the rollout of cell towers where there are no people... Cell towers are expensive, cell companies put them where they can recoup the investment.

Comment Re:It's a 20% drop (Score 1) 217

What you've just said is that this has nothing to do with climate change or the environment, that it is nothing but virtue signaling and a tax deductible vacation with someone else paying for the hookers and blow.

I concur.

Almost - being from the government they have no need to chase "tax deductible" trips - governments dont pay taxes, they collect taxes.

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