[ I laughed when I first read this story. -- Sean]

From: 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.

56. 
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/gaming-and-ga...

57. 
https://www.doyoucovfefe.com/?utm_source=nati...

58. https://t.co/f2iFz8uqBD

59. 
https://twitter.com/TheMarieOakes/status/1419...

60. https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/26/dell_e...
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