Here’s a crazy idea, spend the money on power/network infrastructure now, and build more renewable power generation as we go.

That way, in the worst case scenario, you have cheap renewable power for a generation rather than warehouses of depreciating and unused silicon.

Wonder why they decided to run them on NG… Hmmm

Control. Can’t black mail people if this sort of thing is generally acceptable and it’s easy to be anonymous.

What good is a surveillance state if you can’t threaten troublesome elements with purity laws.