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The article mentions this, but this is an opportunity not a problem.

If a hyperscaler wants to connect a 500MW datacenter, great. That's a huge investment, with various positive externalities. Requiring the builders of the datacenter to also pay for whatever transmission, substations and generation upgrades their demand requires is just not that big of a deal compared to the total size of the investment, which is part of why companies like Microsoft and Anthropic have committed to doing just this.

The article notes that some states are already moving to require this, and more should do the same.

There's a huge opportunity here; the AI buildout is probably the biggest wave of private industrial investment in decades, if not ever, and it comes at a time that we need to accelerate the buildout of our electrical grid. Let's have the hyperscalers pay for it in a way that makes this positive sum for everyone.

As an aside, it's kind of funny that this article reads like it was written by Claude.

> However, I don’t trust hosted LLMs for anything that needs to be private.

Why not? Do you trust AWS with things that need to be private?

Whoa, I had no idea Beej is teaching at OSU!

Back when I was an OSU student I taught myself a lot about practical systems programming, and I was consulting Beej's Guide to Network Programming daily. I kept lamenting to myself that I wished the expensive university was proving as useful as this guy's free website.

Awesome that it has come full circle, great hire by someone.

I think the argument would go that if people are clicking through certificate errors and you're in a position to MITM their traffic, you can just serve them a different certificate and they'll click through the error without noticing or understanding the specifics.

I don't think lenders have any ability to retroactively require PMI; certainly no mortgage I've ever signed permitted this.

The title is clearly meant to generate outrage, but what is wrong with cutting up a book that you own?

Interesting, good info.

To be clear though, this grant is for over $1,200 per ton.

I don't quite understand the goal of this project.

It says they're preventing 15,000 tons of emissions, but there are all kinds of ways to prevent or offset greenhouse gas emissions for under $10/ton. So at a glance this project appears to be allowing almost 2 million tons in preventible emissions in order to... pay people to bike around and collect food scraps?

At least in the Pacific Northwest most Electrify America installations are in Walmart parking lots. These have caused me to spend more time at Walmart the past two years, honestly its a pretty good experience - aside from EA reliability issues, which seem to have improved but still far short of Tesla.

Without looking at any data I’m guessing part of this is that married men end up with kids and can’t afford a home they want to raise kids in there.

Edit: also, school quality.