From what I can tell, datacenters are choosing the expensive things like small-scale gas turbines, a large chunk of the time. Its utter insanity

Both. Theyre using tariffs to limit imports, took away tax credits, and are limiting the ability to build transmission and use public land

I think they're trying to market Yaupon, which at least has caffeine

Most of what people propose, yes. There are a bunch of chemical processes (fertilizer manufacturing) where it's literally not possible to substitute batteries in.

Thanks

Its more of a "see how powerful I am" kind of thing

No. It means more greenhouse gas emissions if they succeed in creating an exception like this

The ISP will get which news outlets you read, but not which articles. Not ideal, but perhaps not as bad as you fear

I think the amount of content scraping being done to feed the LLMs has led to a lot of news outlets making it harder for anybody who can't easily show that they're human to access their work

It means that they're taking revenge for imagined slights by attempting criminal prosecution on bogus pretexts

We do. And it prevents about 80% of cases for people who get the vaccine. Having mosquito control, a vaccine, and a treatment would be better than having only the first two. But it takes money to do a phase 3 trial of a drug, and its hard to get private funding for studies like that when a disease mostly impacts poor people

He got hundreds of people fired for not being sufficiently reverent of Kirk