Even in Europe you can't necessarily bring online a 1200+ MW plant just anywhere, especially in the recent market where some PV production is curtailed in summer and brings the spot rates to zero.

In theory we should start investing in synthetic fuel production, but it's been mostly vaporware so far.

It's not really a big issue. Connecting the last meters of fiber is cheap, either done by default in new constructions, or on demand for older houses. ISP's hardware to run PON is cheap.

Once street level fiber deployment is done, whether market penetration follows or not isn't a huge deal.

> Connecting the last meters of fiber is cheap

Check the France map. This is cheap in densely populated areas, like cities. It isn't in mountainous areas with just small groups of houses like in the middle of the country.

Pretty irrelevant to the last meter, and most ISPs do it for free when you subscribe as they can re-use conduits and sheaths for the legacy copper line, otherwise it's typically a few hours of work.

I am clearly not talking about the last meter issue, I am talking about when the fiber is already in the home and sits unused. That seems like a pity (yes not a huge deal)

But maybe I misunderstood your point ?

Where do you think is the last meter if not in the home?

You wrote last meterS and re-reading your comment you obviously mean the connection between the street source and the home.

Which is unrelated to the point I was making

The main issue with copper comes from the active infrastructure rather than the physical lines.

I work at an ISP that gets DSLAM equipment from Huawei, we run one of the few G.fast VDSL deployments in the world using this particular hardware. Huawei has stopped manufacturing this product line (the Swiss market is a rounding error ;), which will force us to fully migrate some neighborhoods, only for backup inventory.

Germany being 15 years late, I assume you can still buy similar hardware from AVM though.

And in places where FTTH is available, you pay more for 250/100 Mbps than symmetrical 10 Gbps in Switzerland.

France doesn't have much FTTC, VDSL and HFC exist but are fairly rare.

Orange has started decommissioning its legacy copper network.

No, it's a competing ecosystem, even though both are built on Apache Arrow, and their dataframe APIs might look similar on the surface.

DataFusion is being used as a building block for a growing number of databases and data processing engines in Rust, as it offers the necessary primitives.

Awesome, thank you for the detail.

Codex, Kiro, Grok Build. Pi has a clone in Rust too.

I assume you don't use Twitter, otherwise you'd have noticed that annoying bots are in the replies.

Large-scale offshore wind projects in Europe are now nearly as slow and sometimes more expensive than nuclear.

Solar + batteries are still not enough for countries that have long and grey winters.

Cite your sources. While there have been cost increases in offshore wind projects in recent years, they remain well under nuclear costs as far as I’ve been able to find.

I’d add that any new nuclear projects, if anyone is courageous enough to attempt them, are likely to face similar cost increases because many of the same factors apply to them.