Leon

Ah, but it is likely that the deal is locked in place with some kind of price guarantee. Meaning they’ve guaranteed that they’ll buy for 20 years, and in return they get a certain price. I doubt they’ve managed to get it for a flat price for 20 years, but it’s likely a curve that’ll be beneficial to both parts of the agreement.

And then any other parties not part of the deal that also need this gas, those who don’t have 20 year contracts on fixed prices, they get to carry the burden. :)

Power plants typically connect via the grid, hence aren’t local to the data center. Changing over is trivial.

But they don’t have to, and they don’t generally ask, just do.

Yes, that’s what the comment was saying.

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Have a look at GoToSocial.

There’s an EU piracy watchlist? Did anyone submit Facebook to it?

If FOSS is a concern you could look into NetBird. They also have a hosted alternative but as far as I know the entire stack is FOSS.

It’d still be a matter of trusting a private company though.