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In reply to the discussion: Bet ya Trump will make this illegal: it makes too much sense [View all]ancianita
(42,727 posts)38. Considering that the U.S. is 29 times the size of Finland, I'm pretty sure this is a problem of scale, and not
just profit and/or ideology.
When countries that are the size of our states do great things for their people, that doesn't make us look bad, but just makes the point of how small countries can innovate as well as afford nationwide change faster.
One thing that does make us look bad is that we have 90+ percent of the nation's wealth concentrated at the top, and the highest poverty level out of 38 OECD countries. Another thing that makes us look bad, when you look behind the drama curtains -- it's the tech and Koch oligarch networks that are privatizing the country into a plantation.
Their corporate messaging says, "nothing personal, just business" as the collateral damage turns into national human wreckage.
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If it adds a nickel of cost to the opium dreams of AI developers, it will never happen.
hatrack
Thursday
#2
Here in the AZ borderlands, where people face drilling deeper well to reach lowering, disappearing water table
Attilatheblond
Thursday
#22
Finland has a centralized network of underground pipes to distribute steam (geothermal)....
pat_k
Thursday
#41
An argument for moving data centers to Alaska or more densely populated cold places in the "snowbelt."
pat_k
Thursday
#42
Well, I for one knew where you were coming from in the first few words. Cheers!
erronis
Thursday
#16
And when they finally figure out the data centers are worthless and shut them down?
erronis
Thursday
#15
Finland and Iceland are already positioned to take advantage of this kind of technology...
Ol Janx Spirit
Thursday
#24
I don't know. Sounds kind of "woke" to me. If it's not coal, Trump isn't interested.
Vinca
Thursday
#27
Acushnet Process Company, which started making Titleist golf balls, used to heat the building in the winter from......
usaf-vet
Thursday
#28
Trump doesn't have to make this illegal. In most of the country we can't do this at all.
jmowreader
Thursday
#32
Fa geta bout it! This is only possible when you have government oversight and an educated populace.
flashman13
Thursday
#35
Considering that the U.S. is 29 times the size of Finland, I'm pretty sure this is a problem of scale, and not
ancianita
Thursday
#38
If would probably. work in large cities if there were still large tenements.
LiberalArkie
Thursday
#39
District heat networks? In America you pay to have your data-center heat delivered in a truck.
paulkienitz
Thursday
#43