Seems to me the answer to your complaints is that organizations building anything requiring electricity at absurdly high levels (like a datacenter) be required to source their own energy. If that's the the issue, there's the solution...
Just be prepared to see even more massive datacenters to justify the infrastructure cost of self-producing their own electricity...
Datacenters generate revenue, taxable revenue, that would be paid to local/state governments. Datacenters also have the added bonus of not requiring and significant infrastructure upgrades, aside from power and water (no highways, off-ramps, service roads, etc).
Nikki Gerber told Cleveland.com. "What it feels like they are doing is just taking advantage of the unzoned rural areas of Ohio, where they can go ahead and put in whatever they want."
Simple answer, zone all the unzoned areas in Ohio! A state-wide, default zoning ordinance shouldn't be that hard - just require approval for any development that creates so many thousands of square feet of impervious ground cover by a local governing board (city, county, state)...
That's so cute, you think the issue is building massive datacenters on expensive Manhattan real estate. It's the homes, apartments, electric trains, HVAC, lights, etc in NYC.
Datacenters get built where land, power, wages are cheap...
Are you saying the NYT is right-leaning/conservative? Really?
The project could supply up to 20% of the city's electricity and power roughly one million homes throughout the year.
"supply up to 20% of the city's electricity and power roughly one million homes throughout the year."
AND? I really think they mean "or", as in "...could supply up to 20% of the city's electricity OR power roughly one million homes throughout the year."
Selling it to British Columbia or Alberta would be harder at the moment due to the lack of transmission lines as well as transmission losses if there were any.
I'm confused, they can build transmission lines to NY State, but they can't/won't build transmission lines to British Columbia or Alberta?
Your uncertainty about line losses undermines your argument - confusion/ignorance on that basic concept is troubling.
What, you think he'll pull a Biden and cancel approval of a Canadian energy project, like the Keystone XL pipeline?
I realize that wired has become just a shell of its former self, dedicating itself to finding a way to embed anti-Trump elements into every story, but last May they covered this situation.
Not every bank is multi-state/national, some are regional or local.
Smartphones have GPS, which can work indoors in some cases.
The people that generated the greenhouse gases want to sue the oil companies for selling them the raw materials they put in their cars to generate greenhouse gases... The oil companies don't generate the greenhouse gases, their customers do.
The same way you can charge Russia/USSR, China, India, etc...
Or is only US pollution a problem?
Cigarette companies actively mis-informed smokers about the effects of smoking (some even paid doctors to say they were healthy!), if the oil companies lied about the impact using their product had on the environment, they can be sued for lying - they can't be sued for being wrong.
But really, how can anyone alive today think that ICE vehicles don't generate greenhouse gases?
It's coming for us and payback is going to be a bitch regardless of whom.
That may be true, but it would be nice if the jackasses most directly responsible for 1) creating the problem and, 2) actively obstructing all attempts to address it, were made to pay more than other folks.
The "jackasses most directly responsible" are the countless millions of car owners burning gasoline and making greenhouse gases - it isn't the oil companies "directly" generating the greenhouse gases, it's the consumer... but we won't outlaw ICE vehicles, we won't stop driving, instead, we'll sue the oil company for selling us the gasoline that we turn into greenhouse gases.
The villain is the driver, but it's easier to sue the supplier.
A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard.
