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It's the legal situation in the US - and the reason why people familiar with the topic have been upset about the EU data sharing exemptions and similar stuff for over a decade now. It's also really frustrating to keep explaining customers that the way they're planning to use cloud stuff violates local data protection laws (even before GDPR), only for them to ignore it and do it anyway. We need way better education for people in charge of that kind of projects - and way higher penalties for violations, including the ability to fine organizations before they lose data when they store protected data in a way US government can get access to.

The only way a Microsoft cloud (or any cloud service from a US company) in the EU can work is if that company doesn't have access to the European systems - both on hardware level and system level.

Microsoft attempted to do just that by having a German cloud managed by T-Systems - but gave up on that already years ago

Not really a new thing - searching for and playing with security cameras has been light entertainment for about two decades now.

For an equally long period it has been clear that if you connect an IP camera or similar device you're a pretty big moron if you don't isolate it from both your internal network and the internet, and only provide controlled access - no matter the manufacturer, non-Chinese ones are not really better in how horrible their software is. Unfortunately most large IT systems are run by absolute morons.

Seems pretty much all current AI models are not familiar with the works of Tom of Finland. Took a lot of kicking to get even remotely close to what I wanted.

Just like the UK exemptions most of those were given to early members as rules changed to get them to agree to the rule changes.

New members don't get that - and UK would be treated like a new member.

China is currently building coal power plants to replace old, less efficient and dirtier plants. Then they use them for base load / network stabilization while they build up ridiculous amounts of energy storage. They're not running all the time, only to compensate variability in renewables power generation while they build up storage. They'll probably be taken out of use in a few decades without having much runtime.

For installed capacity the new power plants don't change much as they take old ones offline - percentage wise coal is falling due to the ridiculous speed of building renewables.