Comment Re:buyout (Score 1) 37
So a 7% layoff, Take the offer or KEEP YOUR JOB.... A little nicer than meta, but again profit trumps people
FTFY
So a 7% layoff, Take the offer or KEEP YOUR JOB.... A little nicer than meta, but again profit trumps people
FTFY
I suspect the employees offered the voluntary buy-out have a fair bit of company stock, likely collected over their 20+ years in the company.
If the deal isn't appealing to them, they don't have to volunteer to accept it...
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.
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...
In February, UofM's Steven Ceccio told the University of Michigan Record that the facility would consume 500,000 gallons of water per day
OK, what does that mean "consume" - if the facility takes in 500,000 gallons of water a day, how much is returned to the sewage system? None? Most of it?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Also not Vatican City - Pope wants to keep his options open.
Vatican City generates is/will be 100% Solar Electricity - they don't need to fly to Columbia and talk about turning off their diesel generators or coal-fired power plants.
The list includes the EU which isn't exactly a country, but collectively does rank as a major emitter.
The list includes the "European Union", then it lists all the member countries of the EU...
7 minute is a irrelevant target by people who have not looked at actual human behaviour. There's no need to charge that fast. Road trips are not about filling up as fast as possible and racing back on the highway to set travel speed records.
What, after pissing thru 1,000 KM of continuous driving (651 miles), why would I want to spend more than, say, 7 minutes outside the car before driving another 1,000 KM (651 Mi)?
When I drive my ICE vehicle it PAINS me to stop every 500 miles to refill my 30 gallon gas tank! I don't have time to just stand around after 8 hours of driving!
LOL
Teslas have a navigation app that tells you how many open chargers there are at all nearby Tesla supercharging stations, that they blindly just showed-up hoping for an open charger is something they chose to do, they could have just used the app.
"This thing" is two different things - one is a high-capacity, light-weight "thing," the other is a quick-charging "thing."
They are describing two different battery technologies, each optimized for a different application...
The end of labor is to gain leisure.