Gaming PC's BANNED By Woke States!
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This is legit crazy bullshit. How are they going to enforce this without putting software in computers to measure electricity usage? What other data will the software collect?
On a slight tangent, We really should have built a lot more nuclear power plants in the western world.
Until they start going after individual components for going over whatever BS power targets they set, you should be able to still build a PC and not have to worry about this garbage. There are a bunch of power saving features in PCs that mainly exist to meet some power target regulations somewhere in the world that can be freely turned off without repercussions.
Given that high refresh rate monitors will be targeted in December though, expect them to start banning the sale of high end GPUs and other power hungry components eventually in any state that incorporates these regulations.
Notice that they have exemptions for actual power hogs like server farms?
This is all about control.
I don't disagree with you at all. My point is that, at least at the moment, this is something that only affects OEMs (and presumably SI companies like CyberpowerPC). It's a big deal still because there is a large number of people unwilling to build themselves a PC for various reasons, and yes they will likely try to go after individual components later down the line to try and force everybody to use cloud services.
It's possible PCs start shipping with bios settings that disable boosting by default or have shit like eco mode enabled to skirt around these regulations, much like monitors do by default with energy saving features. Ultimately shit like this just hinders people that aren't tech savvy, and until they start banning individual components it barely affects knowledgeable people.