Dell won't ship energy-hungry PCs to California and five other US states due to power regulations

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[deport]

“This product cannot be shipped to the states of California,
Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to
power consumption regulations adopted by those states,”

[BwanaNdege]

Simple rule change.

Your PC can consume no more electricity than the Espresso/Latte machines owned by the Karens on your block.

Or the Peleton Exercise Bikes.

Or the electric guitar, amps & Seismic woofers of the kid two streets away who blasts the neighborhood all Saturday night.

[texanyankee]

next will be anything powered by a combustion engine....

[CJ Wolf]

Electric cars suck many times as much electricity as this pc.

[discostu]

If I had the entrepreneurial spirit I would so open an electronics store in a town on the CA border. So many electronics are “banned” in CA. There’s gotta be fat money in that.

[Rio]

My cows are 100% plant-based.

[Paperpusher]

But they can power a bullet train?

And millions of electric cars!

[TexasGunLover]

I prefer to build my own computers, and have been for over 20 years. However, I’m not so sure it’s cheaper than a pre-built anymore. Especially with the insane prices on video cards and RAM we’re seeing.

Same here... been doing it since 1989, but I have an Origin PC on order right now (Core i9 11th gen/GTX 3090 all 4.0 NVME drives + 64 GB of ram) and there is no way I could source and build it with all Corsair components the same way for the same price.

[farming pharmer]

I prefer to build my own computers, and have been for over 20 years. However, I’m not so sure it’s cheaper than a pre-built anymore. Especially with the insane prices on video cards and RAM we’re seeing.

I've been building mine since 1992 (386SX 16MHz, VGA, 1MB RAM and 2400 baud modem).

While very satisfying building my own, I think the economic advantage of DIY builds is gone.

But...you put into the box what you want.

[Dr. Sivana]

I’m not so sure it’s cheaper than a pre-built anymore.

That's been the case for some time, although the Alienware brand does charge a bit of a premium over stock Dells.

I built my last computer because I wanted a custom box (BeQuiet! full-tower Case/Power Supply with i7 SuperMicro Board, Dual 1TB m2s, 32GB RAM), not to save money. The benchmark program described it as an aircraft carrier.

[sphinx]

Except now you’re not supposed to charge your electric car in California either. Electricity shortage, dont’cha know. I think you’re now supposed to power your car with squirrels on treadmills bolted to the roof. Which would be ok with me if I could substitute California politicians for the squirrels and lash them mercilessly. But I don’t suppose PETA would allow it.

[Antihero101607]

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴.

If California offered a reward and I lived in Nevada, I’d park outside a Best Buy close to the state lines, and start taking the plate numbers of any car from California with a dem bumper sticker.

[Levy78]

their goal is ultimately to force a response such as a ‘revolt’, etc. wherein they will respond with a heavy-handed authoritarian approach such as used by China to implement a super vertical and authoritarian state going forward.... all for your safety of course.

but you are correct... climate lockdowns coming next... again, for the safety of you and your children.

[deener]

Funny. You can’t get some Dell PCs delivered to California but the Governor is welcoming homeless from around the country to COME ON IN!

[jerod]

California will soon be a ghost state with abandoned towns and cities.

[Alberta's Child]

Seen on a billboard in Pennsylvania last week:

The Green New Deal is America's "off" switch.

[Ed Condon]

I put “dibs” on Zzyzx.

[Lockbox]

Gee, one company with data server banks in California using 25 MW's

https://www.databank.com/data-centers/

[M Kehoe]

Hmmm.

Are these machines set up to mine Bitcoin?

5.56mm

[reg45]

The Berkeley, Stanford, CalTech, UCLA, etc. science department’s research facilities rely on powerful computers. I guess that the research will have to move out of state. LOL