Are we calling $7,500 tax incentives for the buyer 'subsidies'?

I'm not saying that's wrong, but that's a different kind of subsidy than the ones a company like BYD gets from the Chinese gov't... (Tesla sold the cars at a higher price, the buyer got the subsidy, in BYD the cars are sold at a lower price and the gov't just gives them money.)

As a reminder, it was "climate conscious" politicians, largely in one party, that used the gov't checkbook to prop up certain companies in industries they liked, all with great big press conferences and running for re-election on those generous handouts to 'green industries'.

Dear lord, why? That is an insane number of engineers - GM scrapes by with about 25,000 - 30,000 engineers by most estimates.

Are you a child? EVERY online game will be shutdown at some point, the ONLY discussion/question is how long before it happens?

Off-line game will theoretically play for ever, but advances in computer hardware/operating systems may cause all but the most committed player to to eventually decide it's no longer worth the effort to keep their Apple ][ running to play Oregon Trail (for example).

Holy cow, you mean that just because 1.3 million (verified!) people signed an online petition to force companies to let them keep playing discontinued video games for free in perpetuity that the EU can just say 'Nyet!'?

But, but, they REALLY, REALLY want it!

This is so stupid, give game manufacturers a reason to do what you want, don't just try to force them into complying with your selfish desires... offer them money, tax-breaks, SOMETHING!

The U.S. Secretary of Defense, Justice, Education, etc - in fact, the entire cabinet - all have one thing in common, The Don't Create New Laws! That's the role of the Legislative branch, and the Executive branch - both of which are all elected by the people.

The administration that took charge 18 months ago didn't start working on this regulation 36 months ago? I wonder why that is?

I'm struggling to make sense of your statements and this quote from the summary:

It implies this is along-standing regulation and it takes tears to update...

Yes, but federal data centers, either directly run by the federal government or by contractors for the government represent a very, very small percentage of the standalone data centers in the US. This excludes every MS, AMZ, Meta, Google, etc data centers.

What?

This regulation is about tracking energy/environmental impact, not controlling it/reducing it - this is about data collection, not environmental regulation.

States already heavily regulate construction, be it data centers or anything else.

This regulation only concerns federal data centers, either those operated by the federal government or those operated by contractors for the federal government - private AI data centers, Microsoft, google, meta, etc data centers aren't part of this regulation.

Maybe toss COVID lockups, "remote learning"?

Oh wait, it turns out IQs have been dropping for decades (plural, not singular):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/s...

Who is 'they'?

Carter was not 'forced to sell his peanut farm' he CHOOSE to put it in a blind trust, and it ran up $1M in debt, which forced Carter to sell the farm inn1981, which is AFTER he left office:

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Let's also remember "Billy Beer"...

No, "Conservatives" don't care about the Trump family side-hustle selling Trump-branded merchandise - it means nothing, and I firmly believe he just does these things not for money but to just watch his critics heads explode.

Based on the outsized reactions I see here, I think it's working.

Oddly, a surprisingly large number of European visitors for World Cup are falling in love with things we 'locals' take for granted...

I think your closeted inflatable unicorn thief may not have understood what makes America great - he was looking for something mystical, other are gobsmacked by Buc-ees and ice in soft drinks.

The UFC fights were paid for by UFC, no federal taxpayer dollars.

Trump is busy making our nations capitol beautiful for our 250th, and you think he should be sequestered in the WH working to bring down the price of eggs? Is that really what you think Presidents do?

The summary says that typically the gov't would spend three years crafting the regulation's replacement - if I am correct, Trump took office less than 18 months ago - the Biden administration should have done a solid 12 months of planning/preparing before Trump took office... What happened? What did the Biden admin do to start this process? (Hint: Nothing, because if they had the article would have said so!) And no, DOGE didn't cancel this, how do I know? Because, again, if it had the article would have said so!)

I wonder how many federal employees are employed full-time to monitor and report on the energy, water, and climate impact of federal government datacenters? I bet it's an obscenely huge number with each data center having - at a minimum - round-the-clock/seven-days-a-week monitoring of the datacenter, and that would require 5-7 employees per datacenter, plus regional and national levels of oversight and administration, etc.