My guess: the BOM got taken for a ride by Accenture, who turned a $20M contract into a $62M contract, because BOM didn't have empowered technologists who knew better. I've got no special knowledge here—this is just how these projects tend to go.

I think about the Enron Corpus sometimes if I hear about chats on Signal, or redacted information under subpoena, or even just fragmented business communications. It was the first, last, and possibly only holistic view into how a corporation communicates with itself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_C...

Really? What's the reason for that?

If you believe NIMBYs are bad in every other circumstance (which I agree with) then maybe the problem isn't excessive power consumption, it's poorly planned power supply.

The murderer is Keith Byrne, not exactly a traditional Somalian name. It's the job of the headline to draw out engagement from people who love to make asinine comments, and looks like it's doing the job nicely.

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