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I am old enough to remember when Obama proposed a series of initiatives to update the power grid, most of which were blocked by republicans on account of naughty naughty socialism.
Normalizing declaring national emergencies perhaps?
Setting up the scapegoat for the inevitable collapse of the power-grid due to the data center build out.
You can't be angry at the government if it was Canada's fault. Now you have to support the invasion of Canada by candlelight or be considered an un-American communist sympathizer.
Damn Canadians!
So fucking stupid bro. Do some fucking renewable energy then. Create jobs, energy independent, combat climate change
Its renewables fault. If Biden hadn't invested in renewables we could have the money spent on clean coal.
We could have bought all that bleach that wasn't used to make people healthy during the pandemic (also Bifen's fault - very bad!) and used it to wash all the coal to make it clean (very good for the environment).
That's why we are building datacentres so fast so you can have clean coal really quickly.
I will stop now as nanny tells me its potty time.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS MATTER!
The actual threat is hyperscale datacenters.
As for this, just a grift to find a way to funnel more money to his buddies so they don't have to pay to fix their systems and/or pocket money from taxpayers.
Every one of these is always a grift.
It's either that or he just signalled to the world the majority of the PLCs managing the US critical infrastructure are internet facing, requiring little/no effort to infiltrate it.
That would suggest intelligence.
Fucking stupid. The real danger to the grid is conservatives not letting us invest in infrastructure improvements
This is so fucking stupid.
This problem has been known for years. YEARS.
EV Charger Hacking Poses a ‘Catastrophic’ Risk — Wired Magazine, July 5, 2023
You know how they have effectively and efficiently handled problems like this in the past?
Well they don’t gut the fucking government, hamstringing the agencies responsible for ensuring the safety of these devices and of our cybersecurity as a whole, refuse to create rules over the equipment and infrastructure that protects our infrastructure, and then publicize that it’s a problem before any meaningful change has been made so that every fucking script kiddie and malcontent with AI tokens can try their hand at taking down a region’s power grid, let alone the state actors who have the resources to do it anyway.
They keep it quiet. Pass boring-ass rules and don’t say shit until they’re sure the threat has passed or has been sufficiently remediated.
Terrible fucking governance. They’re literally publicizing a way to conduct a terror attack against the U.S. before they have a plan to handle it.
^Which^ ^might^ ^be^ ^the^ ^point.^
If Trump is, in fact, a foreign asset, and compromised actor, would he be doing anything differently?
You read between the lines, my friend.
Its a good thing he spent all that money making sure no one could build wind power...
And solar.
Ah, but don't you see? If he didn't stop the solar panels, they would've stolen the Earth's entire magnetic moment. And then, they would've stolen the Earth's electromagnetism, which means the loss of all light. This would've spread to the Sun itself, destroying the entire universe.
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They were wasting all the electricity making wind! /s
hmm. 35% of electricity comes from Canada. Threatens Canada with invasion and economic war. Wonders why the lights go out.
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Oh gee, if only there were some government agency intended to help protect industry from cybersecurity threats!
I wonder what's causing all this extra power drain.
Im sure it can't have anything to do with all the ~~surveillance~~ data centers being built to watch the masses every second of the day.
Just saw a FB thread where people were arguing the DCs are okay because they sourced a lot of generators to run on, and they use DEF fluid so they’re clean. I didn’t have the care to argue with them how badly that is actually polluting.
So now he's gonna bomb some data centers?
Dont give me hope.
Texas knows. We blame Abbott and the rest of the fuck head Republicans.
While I’d love to see the unredacted copy, the GOP would just deny the fact that he raped kids and continue to enable him. There would be likely zero consequences with the rigged judicial system and presidential immunity.
It's been a national emergency ever since he slimed his way back into office.
Slimed? He got voted into office because a third of Americans are plain stupid and another third is too lazy to go vote
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
So how many national emergencies is this now? Seems like we have a new one every week…
So you stop asking for the epstien files
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As many as necessary to misdirect taxpayer money to the rich.
It's the same one ever week and it's the national emergency named Donald Trump.
Something something Roman citizen something something bridge never gets fixed
From headline, I thought he was backing away at AI datacenter first power delivery policy. My mistake. Just delay power expansions, and make sure rate payers pay for most expensive option.
This is supposedly targetting China
Approximately 450 large Chinese power transformers (rated above 10,000 kVA) have been imported into the U.S. grid since 2006. Critically, over 360 of these are Large Power Transformers (LPTs) exceeding 100,000 kVA
There are significant orders from utilities to China for new Transformers. The US has a 2.5 year queue overall for transformer delivery, which would lengthen considerably, and the existing Chinese transformers would also need to be replaced.
The order is also designed to make utility solar more expensive, and delayed, for their inverter costs.
Epstein Files™ when?
Dookie Donnie does dumb shit — again.
I thought all those "infrastructure weeks" that donnie the dotard kept announcing would have restored all of the infrastructure, including the power grid?
What happened? Did Obama, Hillary, Biden and Kamala sneak in there and blow up all his beautiful infrastructure?
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