Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered via the Server Auction

Re:Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered v... by xibalba on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:32AM (#30023965)

To play devil's advocate, don't some of these bullet points indicate that it was not a good plan to from the beginning? For example, if a plan's success hinges on building renewable generation in areas where it isn't wanted or can be blocked by the residents, it seems doomed.

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Re:Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered v... by masta on Friday January 21, 2022 @09:40AM (#30024062)

Reality is a lot more complex. Conservative parties rule the majority of german states. Over time they added more and more rules to local law, which implicitly prevented more renewable generation, especially from wind.

Also there have been a lot of astroturf groups spawning up over the years. From hard climate change denial, blackout FUD-spreader and false claims about health impacts. They feed a huge load of BS to the locals, as soon as a developer wants to create a new windpark.

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Re:Hetzner announcement: Price changes for servers ordered v... by hardolaf on Friday January 21, 2022 @11:06AM (#30025423)

It was never a good plan from the start. They wanted to get rid of nuclear because of irrational fear. The path towards energy independence was always nuclear for every nation. But that got rejected thanks to fearmongering. Now we're basically fucked.

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