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.
This is the kind of stuff you read right around the beginning of a bubble bursting.
474 gigawatts? GREAT SCOTT!
Seems like a couple summers ago Texans were sweltering for lack of electric power to run their AC. Checking grid capacity should have been the job of whichever branch of state gov’t handed out these 1800 permits. Was the approval fee a box of steaks?
I think you’ve got that mixed up with The Big Freeze of 2021. Everyone was calling for heads to roll after that fiasco, and are still pissed off.
A lot of that AC usage comes down to poor insulation, older and poorly maintained units, single family housing, overly large housing, vacant housing that still needs to be cooled to keep it from deteriorating before someone can cover the inflated asset price, the need to insulate offices separately from housing because we’ve abolished work-from-home rules…
A well-maintained stock of publicly accessible homes in dense mixed-use walkable neighborhoods, with a professionally managed building-wide AC unit, could reduce the per-capita electricity demand enormously.
But instead, we’ve queued up billions of dollars in concrete and steel to build city-sized warehouses for scorching hot chipsets.
Bruh, a window a.c. is sold in grocery stores for under 200$ stfu.
That doesn’t seem necessary.
Sorry for the rudeness I will adjust the comment.
? and how many to cool a house and how much power does each draw. Which was their point. Not the dollar cost of the unit.
Inb4 they just start building them off grid with diesel generators, and they can’t do anything about it because Exxon lobbied the Texas government to make the “right to bear diesel generators” constitutionally protected.
If datacenters were losing money at $0.07/kwh on the grid, wait until they’re spending $.33/kwh (15 kwh per $5 gal) before you even factor in the price of the diesel generator hardware and maintenance.
Half the joke of those Grok server farms in Mississippi is how ludicrously expensive they are to operate. Elon is paying a premium to ruin local livelihoods.
Fuel contamination is a really interesting subject.
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?
- Tell them no. Period. Done.
- If you can’t tell them no, tell them they have to use renewables and provide their own power.
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?
bUt tHe gRiD CaNt hAnDlE eVs.
Think this is the first time I’ve ever seen a headline with the world SLAMS and was okay with it
As much as they want to “pwn the libtards”, they just can’t afford to.
Good.
Texas can barely keep the lights on under normal circumstances.
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.
At this rate Ted Cruz will just have to move to Cancun full time since he leaves every time the power grid does down there. At least there is one positive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My understanding is that this is just a political stunt and that data centers can easily meet the audit requirements. Time will tell though.
