[ I laughed when I first read this story. -- Sean]
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https://tinyurl.com/ts2rrnr4 (nationalfile.com)
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GREEN NEW DEAL: Dell Stops Shipping High-End PCs To California, Blue States
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Ban Energy-Inefficient Computers
California will begin restricting "computers with high-speed networking capability, multi-screen notebooks, notebooks with cyclical behavior, and monitors with high refresh rates" in December
by Gabriel Keane
July 26, 2021
Computer manufacturer Dell will no longer be shipping high-end Alienware
gaming PCS to liberal-controlled states such as California, Colorado,
Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to new restrictions on "energy
efficiency" implemented in July 2021. California will begin banning
"computers with high-speed networking capability, multi-screen notebooks,
notebooks with cyclical behavior, and monitors with high refresh rates" in
December.
Prospective buyers perusing the selection of Dell PCs on the Alienware
website were greeted with the following [56]stipulation attached to
higher-end listings: "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. Any orders placed that
are bound for those states will be canceled."
Sorry, gamers.
Your government screwed you. [58]pic.twitter.com/f2iFz8uqBD
- Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) [59]July 26, 2021
Shortly after news of the situation broke on Monday, Dell [60]told British
tech website The Register that "Yes, this was driven by the California
Energy Commission (CEC) Tier 2 implementation that defined a mandatory
energy efficiency standard for PCs - including desktops, AIOs and mobile
gaming systems. This was put into effect on July 1, 2021. Select
configurations of the Alienware Aurora R10 and R12 were the only impacted
systems across Dell and Alienware."
California first approved restrictions on computers which do not meet
liberal standards of energy efficiency in 2016, claiming that such
mandates would "save more than 2.3 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a
year - equivalent to annual electricity use by all the homes in San
Francisco - and avoid 730,000 tons a year of climate-disrupting carbon
pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants."
The first set, or Tier 1, of requirements took effect in January 2019.
Tier 2, which took effect in July 2021, extends the mandate to desktop
computers and mobile gaming systems and devices. On December 9 of this
year, the Tier 3 restrictions will take effect, cracking down on
"computers with high-speed networking capability, multi-screen notebooks,
notebooks with cyclical behavior, and monitors with high refresh rates."
Other blue states, including those listed by Dell on its website, have
followed California's lead.
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https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/gaming-and-games/alienware-aurora-r12-gaming-desktop/spd/alienware-aurora-r12-desktop
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https://www.doyoucovfefe.com/?utm_source=nationalfile&utm_medium=sitebanner&utm_campaign=nationalfile
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https://t.co/f2iFz8uqBD
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https://twitter.com/TheMarieOakes/status/1419662284893347840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/26/dell_energy_pcs/
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