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Serious question - why Texas???
by SecretDreams 2y ago
Serious question - why Texas???
- wilson090 2y agoIt's where the energy is for this project. This is unfortunately paywalled but a good writeup on how the datacenter came to be: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-openai-and-oracles-ai-data-center-plan-hinges-on-a-little-known-startup https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-openai-and-oracl...
- vancroft 2y agoI'm not a subscriber so I can't read it, which startup are they referring to in the headline?
- wilson090 2y agoThey're referring to Crusoe (crusoe.ai)
- SecretDreams 2y agoA company that will surely still exist in 4 years time.
- tempusalaria 2y agoTexas is a world leader in renewable energy. Easy permitting, lots of space, lots of existing grid infrastructure from the o&g industry.
- doctorpangloss 2y agoWhy do you think datacenters have actually been built in Oregon?
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- tosapple 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
- LMYahooTFY 2y agoWhat's the relevance of this article to the comment?
- SecretDreams 2y agoThe comment is talking like Texas is a bastion of energy, when they've made the news multiple years in a row about how entire cities collapse over what most states would consider trivial amounts of snow. It is hard to be a world leader in energy and to also have a wiki on your recurring energy crisis issues.
- SecretDreams 2y agoAny downsides?
- baggachipz 2y agoTexas.
- DonHopkins 2y ago[flagged]
- jnurmine 2y agoWhat about hurricanes? Extreme weather events which spew a lot of water, wind and debris around might potentially do a lot of damage to a data center.
- LarsDu88 2y agoMy kneejerk response was to point to the incoming administration, but the fact Stargate has been in the works for more than a year now says to me it's because of tax credits.
- b3ing 2y agoLots of back door deals. Just expect more government things put in TX just like the Army built that place in Austin, when we have plenty of dead bases that could be reused
- SecretDreams 2y ago:/
- hrfister 2y agoProbably for the same reason that Silcon Valley has been moving there slowly and quietly for a while now.
- SecretDreams 2y agoBecause rich people inevitably don't like taxes? And maybe forest fires?
- whimsicalism 2y agobecause california is not a very permissive landscape and believes there should be a community-involved process with veto for essentially every large private action
- SecretDreams 2y agoThis was a very long winded way to spell money
- whimsicalism 2y agoi’m curious, do you feel that you are contributing to the discussion?
- SecretDreams 2y agoDo you feel your prior comment was sincere and fully captured the reasons for which some firms and individuals have transitioned from California to Texas?
- chickenbig 2y agoNatural gas to power the turbines while the nuclear plant are built, I guess. Also is Texas more open to large-scale development than elsewhere?
- SecretDreams 2y agoAny downsides?
- ericjmorey 2y agoExisting underinvestment in infrastructure and its maintenance, extreme weather, water resource limitations, some human rights issues.