Ford for some reason, at least in Europe and Great Britain stopped to make the cars that were selling most. Namely the Ford Fiesta and then the Mondeo. Or when they called a compact crossover Ford Puma, and it's so ugly that a Chinese crossover is more stylish.
Not that Stellantis it's doing better stuff, but at least it's continuing to make and sell the Panda Mk IV but also is making the Grand Panda that is another Peugeot 208. Maybe because it's the only model selling well, maybe because the remaining engineers in Turin could explain the Roman Quadrilateral driving experience and that a small and possibly cheap car it's a good idea.

This data center build frenzy reminds me the commercial centers build frenzy of 30 years ago. They were built with the expectancy to get an anchor and all the small shops filled, and people getting there to buy groceries and other stuff. At the beginning it worked, but after some time they got to saturation, because in these mall you found the same shops, and you clearly can't eat at two McDonalds or KFC at the same time and people started to go to the nearest mall, maybe the one that was at walking distance.
Normally the mall that are still thriving are the one near residential areas, but there are some commercial centers that had some parts that were built but never opened.
Then of course e-commerce happened and some types shops, like appliance and electronics, become empty, or basically a pick and pay for orders made online. Anchors resumed to make smaller supermarket for basically groceries near residential areas.
At some poiny some city councils stopped to give permits to build malls and there were a lot of protests. On the other hand there are more and more dead malls or dying malls, and the same could happen with data centers: because now they look profitable and everyone want to build one, but what will happen tomorrow, and the demand for service is finite and will split.

Vittorio Ghidella was for some time CEO of the Fiat Automobile division. He started in the shop floors for QA and walked up the stairs to the higher ranks. He was famous for test driving early car prototypes and was sometime seen in Turin waiting for a tow truck because the car had some problem. Unfortunately he had strong disagreements with Cesare Romiti probably for the idea to make a joint Venture with Ford and was let go.

This is the same in Italy. Digital price label are used in a percentage of supermarkets, even medium sized ones. Normally they aren't used in the vegetables, fresh fish, meat, and deli areas, where there is not packaged food, I suppose for regulatory reasons.

LLM are trained on existing programming languages in source code form, so to have an LLM to generate code in a new language a lot of source code has to be present.
Maybe an LLM could produce directly machine code, or p-code instead of having an intermediate step on a language that has to be compiled or interpreted, but this makes more difficult to check and debug the LLM output, and because the output isn't deterministic this makes very diffcult to debug a program.

Italian football league and the TV networks have a lot of problems, because people are slowly going away from football. they're blame piracy for tne low number of subscription, but high prices, low quality of the shows and even lower quality of customer service have alienated people, and anyway kids and teen are more interested on other things rather than football.

They aren't general purpose personal computer, but somewhat specialized devices. The software one could install on a smartphone has normally a standard installation from a store and it's suppose that it's more curated than the average downloaded package. In other terms because a smartphone it's more limited, there are lesser ways to compromise it compared to a PC, especially if both are used by not tech savvy people.

Office spaces could be converted in residential or hotel with some remodeling. Near me a 18-story office building is remodeled as a luxury condo and mall. a datacenter is an industrial building, and could be reused mostly as another industrial warehouse.

If the US government nationalize AI corporations, even without paying the actual shareholders,it's an advantage for them because these companies are full of debts and unprofitable.

I remember that in the late 1980s I visited a cookie factory. A the start of the line that made the butter cookies there was a "ccok" that mixed wheat, water, butter and other ingredients, then put the dough into a machine. In the middle before the packing section there was a woman doing some QA, and at the end there was a guy with a forklift loading the pallets with the cookies to the lorries.

The cost it's due to land costs, raw material costs, and to a lesser degree the architectural choices.
Zoning laws that favour urban sprawl with single use areas are a cause of high costs of houses in USA, but in other countries there are other causes. In Italy for instance there are very low investments on social housing project compared to the ones that were made in the '70s, either with rent, or lease to buy, and a lot of empty apartments that are kept as investments, but they aren't rentable because they need a total renovation, and a potential buyer had to add the costs of renovations to the selling price.
The most imprtant problem is that, especially in some areas there are private quity funds that buy houses and commercial spaces for speculation.

I think that a Ford Transit tipper is better suited than an F150 to be used in an actual construction site. The problem is that most of Transit require a commercial driving license because they could load more than 3.5 ton. On the other hand, some Transit van are less than 3,5 ton so they could be driven with a car drivers license.

This is the same that happens now with lead acid batteries, all the metal and even the sulfuric acid is recycled to make new batteries. The problem with lithium batteries it's that the recycling production chain isn't streamlined like the lead acid one, and alo the fact that people are tossing small batteries.

The solution to bad public school pass to have them adequately funded. It isn't the only factor, but having a sufficient number of teachers and have those teacher not escape to better paid job it's important.

Private schools still need teachers, by the way and teacher are like any normal persons searching jobs, so if in this right-wing dream world without public schools, teachers are still needed. Or the private schools are going to be diploma printing factories?

I have to add that at least in France and Italy horses are still breeded for other reasons. Yes, and the drawing of an horse head on abutchers's window could give a clue.