Yeah, I'm not sure why we're pretending this will benefit the public. The only benefit is that it will create employment, and datacenter jobs are among the lowest paid tech workers in the industry.
Not sure why the Boeing 929 was a failure in so many places, but you can still ride them in Japan and Hong Kong. The experience is fun --they are fast, security is light and the vessels are retro-futuristic. I rode one from Tokyo to Izu-Oshima and it was 1:45 vs 6:00 for the normal ferry.
All modern industrial machinery has safety features that often include shutting down the machine. Most machine owners are allowed to send mainteance in to evaluate the reason of the shutdown, resolve the issue and restart the machine, without calling the OEM.
Imagine if a walk-in cooler had a high-temp alarm, and the machine shut itself down, and locked the cooler as a result, then told the owner to call the cooler OEM. Thankfully it doesn't work that way, it might alarm then you diagnose (radiator fan not running, fan coils covered in leaves, whatever) resolve and restart.
Until a couple years ago we had a gas-fired tankless water heater which used a single D-cell battery for ignition, which had to be changed once every year or two. It wasn't connected to wall power at all.
There are, or used to be, Bosch tankless water heaters which used a small turbine connected to a piezo-electric igniter, no external power source required ever.
I rode the Cathlamet ferry recently. It was great except its cash only and I had no idea. I got super lucky that someone else in line just paid for my ride.
