They are like Oracle, take something very good like Sun Microsystems (Solaris, Java), as far as locking into worse contracts after acquisition: "Java SE Universal Subscription (2023): Oracle changed its pricing metric. Instead of charging per user or per processor, organizations now pay based on their total employee count. This means you must pay for every employee in the company, even if only a few use Oracle Java"

50% to 100% through relaxation of regulations.

Get a new computer, log in the WhatsApp / messenger/ etc, all your past messages are then decrypted, that means the required cryptography keys are held on their serversâ¦

That requires to read your social media before arrival, so that they can determine that Trump has not be criticized.

Those AI servers are expensive, why retire one early, on the same terms of a normal server which could be 10x cheaper? Better for the environment also to an extent (if powered by carbon neutral).

As they often shutter it. Yes everything has a lifespan, yet most of those nest thermostats would be operational and many will go landfill now. Well done google, Zero environmental conscience.

I for one welcome our new AI robot overlords.

If only Iceland had a form of Geothermal energy to keep them warm....

Wait until they have it running for 10 years and see what that salt has done to the internals. Like dipping something metal in sea water for 10 years, except access is limited due to radioactivity. (used to work in Nuclear reactors and corrosion, that was standard high pressure reactors).

...from having off-shored IT, that must have saved JLR some millions over the years.

Range Rover locks all its doors above 5 mph, to keep undesirables out, flat door handles or not, has done for last 15 years. If getting out is important, get a glass hammer.

Individual days are less important than the whole year. If renewables out produce coal to be the worlds biggest source of electricity generation, then by definition is larger also than natural gas.