Sure, but if the law doesn’t stop them then somebody else is going to have to anyway.

The longer it takes for the justice system to do anything useful the more it feels like that’s exactly what we need.

please tell me they’re prioritizing minimizing the existential cost of the climate catastrophe over the $ cost

I’m sure you know that’s not the case. It’s always about the money.

That said, I would guess that these function similarly to hybrid car engines. Electric motors are better at providing a quick or variable torque rsponse and gas engines are most efficient running at a constant RPM. Put those properties together and you get an electric motor designed for takeoff and large altitude changes, and a gas motor designed for maintaining cruising speed.

Essentially, the exact opposite of what you wanted.

It’s late and I’m tired so my math could be wrong but if they downloaded 195 TB in 40 minutes then the attacker is working with an internet connection that is at least 81.25 Gigabytes (not bits) per second. That isn’t a script kiddie. That’s serious business.

That’s what she said

Be grateful that is a choice you can afford to make

Seriously. The business classes I took in college were the most ridiculous bullshit ever. “To run a successful business you need to sell your products for more than it costs to produce them”. Oh my god, what a revelation! Thank you business school.

Same. When I first started down that path I kept finding posts about how it was impossible to set up and maintain but it’s been pretty painless for me. I basically had no clue what I was doing and I figured it out just fine.

“If you build it, they will come” refers to a homemade baseball field in a work of fiction. It’s not a valid argument for spending trillions of dollars to support demand that doesn’t exist just on the off chance that some day it might.

I would think dealing with radiaton would be the most difficult thing about massive amounts of electronics in space. That’s why a chip on a satellite is much more expensive than an equivalent chip that stays on Earth.

As ridiculous as that sounds, it is true

That’s certainly what it looked like to me. Not so much “I want to be here” but “my people didn’t tell me what to do after the medals”. He looked like a confused old man shuffling about.

If their offense had shown up that might have mattered

Let the internet do what it does best, create all kinds of weird and unnecessary porn. That should do it.

Kind of but not as much as you might hope. Most of the time when telcos add more capacity to a fiber route they are either pulling more fiber through existing conduit or laying new ones along the same path. Being able to shoot farther is great if you’re building an entirely new route and can plan out your regen locations accordingly but not as helpful if you’re using the same huts on the side of road that were designed for shorter distances. They already have land and/or lease agreements, power, access, and all the other required infrastructure in place using shorter distance calculations. It would be expensive, and probably impossible in many cases, to set up new regen points along their existing routes.

Then there’s the added expense of testing, certifying, stocking, and training people how to use all this new gear, which probably has longer lead times to acquire. Add all that up and a 40% reach boost isn’t quite as enticing. That’s not to say it won’t be done in some cases. I believe some subsea cables use hollow core fiber and added reach in a situation like that is awesome. I just think most of them would rather invest in improving reach on the glass they already have in the ground than going with something like this.

That’s pretty cool, but it isn’t going to help AI data centers get bandwidth faster any time soon. Most fiber in the ground today, especially the kind of long haul fiber being discussed here, isn’t hollow core. Laying new fiber across the country is arguably just as difficult and expensive as building these AI data centers and it’s spread out over very long distances. It costs more than $1/ft to lay relatively cheap fiber in rural areas with no permitting fees and it only gets more expensive from there. Fiber builds between major US cities cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Additionally, glass based fiber can do these same speeds and even higher today. Granted, this reach is about 40% longer on average at 200 km without a regen, but that doesn’t save network operators as much money as it sounds like it would. Not enough to justify overbuilding their entire network with hollow core fiber, that’s for sure.

Sure it is. There is a connection from the battery string to some kind of controller. If you disconnect that and reconnect it to one of a dozen generic controllers designed to work with battery strings from various manufacturers it will work just fine.

Worst case scenario you can bypass whichever circuit board is controlling that logic. It could be the inverter itself or some other board but either way the batteries themselves are fine. Inverters and control boats are relatively compared to the price of batteries.

No one needs to organize anything. Three dozen people could solve this problem without ever communicating with each other. Most of them would likely be in prison for life or dead afterwards but people give up their lives for way dumber reasons every day.

Of course, I’m included in the category of people not doing this, but that doesn’t change the simple truth of what I’m saying.

Not all data centers are for AI. Practically anything you do on the internet lives or transits through a data center. A very serious answer to your question is simply “the internet”. AI data centers are just bigger and more dense than the ones that have been around for a long time.