Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power

• Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sometimes it’s public entities, like city councils, or police departments. Othertimes, it’s privately owned business, like Lowes, HomeDepot, apartment complexs, or even “communities” like HOAs. The point is that Flock is a private business, and only government affiliated when and where th government decides to do business with them.

  This is in contrast to say, traffic cameras, owned by state DoTs, which are publicly prooerty and exist on public infrastructure.

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  • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, and governments have decided to do billions is dollars worth of business with them. Where did that come from? Couldn’t the billions have been used for solar infrastructure?

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe, maybe not.

      They’re only pulling ~300-500 million in revenue, which is enough money to build… 1 or 2 grid scale solar farms…

      I’m not saying that wouldn’t be a better use of the money, but you should probably do some cursory research on the company so you understand what they are doing, and the financial scale that they are doing it at.

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      • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Perhaps you should do a cursory search on the companie’s financials so you understand. They passed the $500 million mark in annual revenue at the halfway point of this year after $300 million last year. That means they’ve likely already passed a billion in total revenue and are just getting started. My small town found the cash to put up $500,000 in a single year… and they are just getting started.

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• Jaysyn@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who is moving all of these goalposts!

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