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Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis

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271 points nradov | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 13:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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dominicrose ◴[18 Nov 24 15:53 UTC] No.42173542[source]▶
> The city will have its own legal framework modeled on Singapore's and will run on clean hydroelectric power, with the hope of drawing technology companies, especially AI.

AI with an hydroelectric power supply? That's optimistic. At least the power-consuming part of this would have to be somewhere.

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1. Etheryte ◴[18 Nov 24 16:17 UTC] No.42173843[source]▶
Why is that optimistic? Hydro is old, reliable tech, it's always online, and as pointed out in another comment thread, Bhutan has so much excess energy that they're looking for ways to make it useful. Not sure if I see the problem?