Yeah, good thing we have a random Chinese company listening to us instead of Amazon

I remember a discussion I had over 20 years ago here on slashdot with one someome who proudly declared that the USA would never become a tyranny because the "oathkeepers" would overthrow any tyrant with their firearms. I told them that those "oathkeepers" most likely will join the jackboots instead and it looks like I was right.

I've been reading a lot about this and for the last 20 years largely the agw global warming advocates have INSISTED that food crops wouldn't flourish in higher CO2 environs (despite obvious logical and ample evidence - cf greenhouses commonly run at higher co2 concentrations for just this reason).

Once he figured out how much electricity these AI systems would likely consume, he could use that to forecast the amount of planet-heating pollution that would likely create. That came out to between 32.6 and 79.7 million tons annually. For comparison, New York City emits around 50 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.

The leaching is not just iron, it is also other metals, some of them quite dangerous to fish and people. We do not yet know what the effect will be.

We have also elected officials to be empowered with the responsibility for enforcing laws. Nobody elected Google. And 'we' have put the collective rope and tree approach to law enforcement behind us.

... is SMS traffic to/from my mobile devices any of Googles concern?

Maybe you don't realize that NRDC, Greenpeace, or Sierra Club don't have any power to regulate anything?

Democrats regulate harmful things when we give them the power to do so.