This is hilarious because a year or so ago these idiots were saying that building a bunch of data centers would stabilize the Texas grid and were encouraging building them.
But what do you expect from a southern state so corrupt it can’t supply enough power to heat homes in the winter and builds fertilizer factories across the street from schools.
That’s ok our fucking stupid Oklahoma government will tell them to come here were apparently we have plenty of water and electricity.
Fucking morons going kill us all.
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In the West, Texas explosion, the schools came more than 20 years after the plant, to be fair.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5047761/
The order of operations does not matter in the slightest. The government allowed it to happen, and Texas had no laws to prevent it.
The rest of the world has zoning laws to prevent that kind of idiocy.
Done right, it actually would.
Powering those centres would require building ton of new power generation, and in the case of a risk of running out of power, non critical infrastructure - like a datacenter - can be disconnected from the grid to redirect that power to the uses that actually matter. Like here in Finland, if we are risking blackouts for homes during winter for example, they will cut power to factories and stuff like that first in an effort to prevent it. It’s part of the contracts for commercial electricity connections, and they have to just accept that.The bigger the section of non-critical infra you have, the more capacity you can free up in an emergency.
In Texas, though? Not very optimistic it would ever work that way.
No, they would not build enough because that would reduce profit. And households would pay more because demand is up, and households would get disconnected. We’ve already seen how they do things.
Case in point, they’ve reversed their outlook already.
Isn’t this the state where the power grid goes down when a cool wind blows through?
In fairness, Texas didn’t normally see sub-zero winter weather, even before climate change started ratcheting things up.
But also, that statewide prolonged blackout was more the consequence of poorly constructed gas generator plants trying to squeeze the wholesale price of electricity in the state. They waited so long to turn on that their un-weathered pipes froze. And then the strain on the grid took down tens of millions in infrastructure.
But don’t worry. The state bailed out all the corporate entities and guaranteed a bunch of grant money for weatherizing, so that rigging the wholesale electricity markets will never cause this kind of tragedy to happen again.
Also, funnily enough, we’ve had a bumper crop of solar and wind power since then. And the fact that we can’t toggle these power sources on and off has neutered a lot of the profit-squeezing that gas plants used to exploit.
bUt tHe gRiD CaNt hAnDlE eVs.
Texas doesn’t have the best record of keeping the power on for their residents. This is probably a good idea.
These aren’t just any residents. They’re corporate citizens! They need the power to… checks notes Undress children in photos?
Good.
Texas can barely keep the lights on under normal circumstances.
Maybe the lights are on, but nobody is home?
Oh they are definitely home.
But they are sitting naked on the living room floor rocking back and forth in a meth induced psychosis while clutching an assault rifle illegally modified for full auto.
Did…did Texas do something right? 🔥🥶🔥
No, they just corrupted SO HARD SO FAST they overloaded their system.
474 gigawatts? GREAT SCOTT!
This is the kind of stuff you read right around the beginning of a bubble bursting.
1,800? Who the F needs that many?
Backlog of pedos trying to generate naked pics of kids.
Fuck me, while finding this I found out Musk was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018. Do better, UK.
- Tell them no. Period. Done.
- If you can’t tell them no, tell them they have to use renewables and provide their own power.
As much as they want to “pwn the libtards”, they just can’t afford to.
Think this is the first time I’ve ever seen a headline with the world SLAMS and was okay with it
Where do 1800 data centers go? What do they do? Where does the inventory to fill them come from? Who has the money for that inventory?
My understanding is that this is just a political stunt and that data centers can easily meet the audit requirements. Time will tell though.
100% the grid can handle it if you shed the poorest of your population from the grid. And where do you think any new infrastructure will be going in Texas. Around the neighborhoods that need it or around data centers?
