It’s bullishit either way, but a single large industrial load is comparatively easy to accommodate, especially when it’s not a giant inductive load. A large increase in the residential demand is going to be spread out over huge areas, requiring changes all over the place.

Data centers are unfortunately not going anywhere. I just wish someone would put all that waste heat to use, instead of just dumping it into the atmosphere. Seems like it would be pretty easy to make something like a combination data center/desalination plant.

For her problem, it sounds more like her pump is sitting too low in the well.

In general though, data centers should all be banned from using evaporative cooling. Yeah it can be cheaper, but it causes too many issues when you start using it at scale.

Makes sense to get ahead of the upcoming issues. Can’t have the local population getting all uppity when he starts his third term.

Accommodating holidays or time for prayers is very different than accommodating an employee refusing to ever do the test they are paid to do.

The hockey metaphor actually works to describe the Canadian populations response as a whole.

If the opposing team does something scummy, and the refs don’t respond, we will fist-fight you about it.

Canadians have always been polite, but there’s never been the tendency to be pushovers. People like Trump always get that confused.

This is one case where I don’t think the cell phone would drastically change the movie. He’d still be home alone dealing with the thieves as his mom worked her way back. He just wouldn’t be in the dark as to why he is alone.