From my experience you’re mostly right, however it’s more like, in order of priority: power availability, water availability, data availability, land price. Cost to upgrade upstream power transmission dwarfs all other costs.

I’d note that after construction ongoing jobs are minimal. Specific example: $2B aud datacentre will support 30-60 jobs after completion. And probably 50% of those are low skill/income security,cleaning maintenance etc.

Lower socio economic Chinese definitely still fear the rich and worry about being homeless and not getting medical treatment.

I also have an off grid cabin with a Victron inverter that is not on the Internet and never will be.

Pretty competitive too.

But the point was the industry that I’m in runs on them because the teams you’re communicating with are in the field and supervising construction not in front of a computer.

These are young engineers who need to build experience and relationships with the site teams and text messages aren’t going to build them.

Based on the vagueness of the response (which law in particular, what are the details etc) I’d argue they won’t delete anything ever and claim that they thought they might run afoul of some law.

Quite a take there. Kids are also the source of all joy and happiness, depending on how you look at it.

What is it doing? Monitoring some sensors, communicating with a phone via bluetooth, running a screen.

I have a xaiomi mi band 9. The body to screen ratio is roughly the same as the Apple Watch. It does HR tracking, workouts, has excellent 1000 night brightness, weather, notifications etc. I get about 15 days from a charge. They say I can get 21. But either way. I understand the Apple Watch is running better hardware and more things in the background, but there’s also significantly more space in the watch for battery. It might be doing more but a factor of 15x is a crazy differential.