In denmark he have the tradition of eating kransekage which is only available in bakeries and grocery shops around new years eve.

We usually get blinis with caviar and Crémant. We haven’t decided on anything else yet.

We try to engage in each other’s interest, even though we have completely different hobbies. My wife is quite spiritual, so when she learns something new, we discuss it and I try to understand it and I challenge the topic and we have a good talk about it.

My interests are mainly about technical stuff, and she tries to understand what I’m working on.

But mainly we stare into the void for a good hour after kids are put to bed, and then we discuss practical and mundane boring stuff. But, we insist on being more than roommates that shares responsibilities, so when we aren’t sleep deprived or too overwhelmed by parenthood, we have deep conversations. We also work a lot on our selves. We have high ambitions for our self and what kind of life we want for our family, so we talk about our dreams and how we best realise them.

I don’t know how wide spread smart meters are in the US, but it should be fairly simple so have an extra tariff on these kind of consumers, or perhaps just tariffs during peak periods.

At least it could be enforced that the surplus heat from data centers had to be reused in some way, could be residental heating or ptx.

Torrentio have been unstable for me the last couple of days and i couldn’t get it to work a few hours ago.

I don’t think it’s all bad in the long run. A higher base load also give higher incentives to install renewable energy. In Denmark we have issues with the cannibalisation effect, i.e. We have reach a point where it’s no longer financially viable to install more renewable assets. We often see negative power prices on windy and sunny days, which forces the renewable asset owners to either turn off their assets during these periods, or pay the negative spot price.

In certain periods they might have cheaper prices than regular consumers and in other periods it might be more expensive. They just have a fixed price agreement. No producer of electricity hands out free power.

How would that work? With a flat fee or depending on whether ai companies are tipping the scale to a more expensive marginal price within a price period?