I’ve stopped caring what the capacity is. Youtube doesn’t require a fraction of what we have already in place.
However, they’ve put so many ads that an adblock is required.
But, if you have adblock you need to click the video you need to watch, let it not load, refresh the screen, wait way longer than should be needed, and then watch the video while getting a nagging popup that says “Experiencing interuptions?”
Followed by watching the video rendering NOT rendering at various points, and you need to pause and let it buffer.
All because google thinks they are entitled to push malicious ads onto my device, and punishing me for blocking them.
The speed we have is more than enough for the internet we have. The bottleneck is the companies enshittifying their own service.
Faster speeds mean nothing when you artificially throttle them.
That description is like the type of thing I’d say, and other people would tell me how wrong I am.
“Just cut a hole in the roof, and get some machinery to lift the generators out, and then drop new ones in. Easy peasy!”
“It doesn’t work like that! It’s not legos. You can’t just snap a new one in the old spot like plug and play!”
“Why not?”
“Because these are highly sensitive nuclear reactors where small mistakes kill a whole city! These things weigh 100 tons EACH!!!”
“I’m sure it’ll be fiiiiiiiiine!”
And I’d be called an idiot for thinking you could just do this. Yet, in this timeline I never had this EXACT conversation, so I can’t say I was “right”, but I can totally see me having this conversation and being told I was wrong.
People always think I’m wrong, and that you can’t do things just because they aren’t regularly done.
My current thought is that if America wanted to absolutely dominate the globe in terms of GDP, they would install solar panels all along the nevada desert. All that prime solar space is being wasted.
Plop down a few million solar panels, and you could generate enough energy for the entire planet.
The bottleneck wouldn’t be creating power. The bottleneck would be distributing it.
But you could easily put something big and important in the middle of the desert. Something that consumes more energy than you can imagine.
I’m thinking like a 2,000 foot tall voltron mech which is all electric, and powered by solar.
Then if we go to war, you just send these massive mechs. No atomic bomb needed. It just flattens the city, and comes home. Recharges, and goes back out. All they do is switch it’s batteries.
What they going to do? Shoot missles at Voltron? Those missles won’t even dent the armor.
The only reason we don’t have voltron is because the solar power needed would spur a solar explosion, and everyone would be getting solar. Then power utilities wouldn’t make money.
So we don’t have Voltron because Thomas Edison’s ghost is still a capitolist.