And have in so many cases abused their power.
All that not counting the stagnation and enshittification.
I also used to get together with friends to watch Apple Keynotes. They were so much fun.
But now they’re just extremely sanitized pre produced videos (basically ads) that lack any sort of soul.
Yes yes I know they were always mainly ads. But there was something to be said for people presenting on stage.
When you bought a computer, that’s all it was. It had much more of a toy or appliance like appeal rather than this deeply integrated life augmenter. The idea that a company like Apple or even a bigger (at the time) company like Microsoft would own a movie/TV studio and broadcast major league sports was an insane idea.
I will say regarding keynotes, it wasn’t limited to the genuine nature of the companies. The 90s and 2000s were just on different levels of the pace of technology development. I am sure that even Microsoft had an exciting keynote or two and they were the evil empire in those days.
Rather than saying "no", how about making the new datacenters fund nuclear, solar, and grid battery?
Yours better off mandating solar panels on parking lots (especially in the US!), etc.
good luck with that
any promises will be ignored, avoided or dumped onto regular people the very moment the approval is granted
and you've accomplished nothing
and if you make them hold a certain position they'll simply sell in another subsidiary, or use derivatives
the only way to deal with this type of parasitism is blanket refusal
See you in 15 years I guess.
Many site are already building their own capacity, but doing it (unfortunately) with gas turbines.
Let them buy energy, but why aren’t utilities’ power rates more strictly regulated?
Residential rates should be locked in with inflation, allow business rates to increase.
Doesn't seem too hard to force the datacenter to put up a bond for it, and then if the requirements/timelines aren't met the bond's seized.
try writing the contract, say, requiring 500MW of new gas generation to be built locally to power the DC, which is grid connected
they'll then secretly write a contract to sell 500MW of gas generation on the open market, conditional on approval
at some price they'll find a buyer, at which point 500MW increase in grid capacity has been cancelled out despite them actually building the plant
and all it cost them was the difference in the contract price