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Hope they have ample backup power
by cozzyd 1y ago
Hope they have ample backup power
- excalibur 1y ago[flagged]
- decremental 1y agoThis comment has won the cringe award
- ineedaj0b 1y agoReddit can become a echochamber, a one sided flog machine, all good content decaying, no good or viable business after 10 years (propped up by YC investors), it’s even become a slur to denote a certain type of brain and eventually it will die off like slashdot and digg did. But you won’t be able to take the Redditors off the internet. They be lurking, waiting with a perfectly annoying post ironic millennial reply. I hope the TSE does well and expect the state with the largest concentration of energy tycoons and businessmen will figure out how to add grid robustness - a problem solved in nearly all states.
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- runako 1y ago> expect the state with the largest concentration of energy tycoons and businessmen will figure out how to add grid robustness This reads like the energy tycoons and businessmen only recently moved to the state, and now they can fix the problems. My understanding is that these energy tycoons and businessmen presided over the creation and deterioration of the Texas grid in the first place.
- ajross 1y ago> grid robustness - a problem solved in nearly all states Shouldn't that drive the question of why Texas is so bad, though? This argument seems to amount to "Everyone else is better than us, so we must be the experts in fixing the problem.", which seems weirdly backwards.
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- bluGill 1y agoDoesn't matter where you are you need that. There is no place in the world where the grid is reliable enough that someone who wants to operate with high reliability can get by without ample backup power. Grid power is normally a lot cheaper than running backup power (that is the capital and maintenance costs are sunk costs, just counting fuel) so it isn't worth disconnecting from the grid despite having enough backup power that you could.
- ToucanLoucan 1y ago[flagged]
- __s 1y agoTho energy is also a lot cheaper in Texas than NY. If you have to have ample back up regardless, total cost of maintaining consistent power can be lower even when grid quality is lower (ofc, I'm looking at retail rates, who knows what specific numbers can be cut in contract)
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- caminante 1y agoI know this sub thread kicked off with snark about regional grids. That said, TXSE will be located in Dallas, a T5 datacenter city. Why can't it be MORE reliable than XNYS/XNAS?
- dylan604 1y agoBecause the powers that be in Texas will siphon off funding to make things work better to fund their own projects. "Should we winterize our power grid" Nah, it's Texas where it doesn't get that cold for that long. Should we implement a warning system in an area that is historically known for being prone to flash flooding? Nah, it doesn't happen that often and we have other things to spend money on instead.
- leetharris 1y agoTexas loses power one time for a week and the redditors will never let it go. Wild how this is still a cringe joke so many years later.
- micromacrofoot 1y agoit was an avoidable catastrophe, not just a minor blip I still remember the northeast blackout from 2003 too and that was only a part of a day for me
- avgDev 1y ago"There have been 263 power outages across Texas since 2019, more than any other state, each lasting an average of 160 minutes and impacting an estimated average of 172,000 Texans, according to an analysis by electricity retailer Payless Power (https://paylesspower.com/blog/blackout-tracker/ https://paylesspower.com/blog/blackout-tracker/)" Also in 2021 210 people died. This is a huge deal. This wasn't just a little outage.
- leetharris 1y agoWhat you talked about is not a Texas grid problem, but a local problem. The Texas grid itself is very reliable. > Also in 2021 210 people died. This is a huge deal. This wasn't just a little outage. Yes, a rare storm knocked out power and people died. It is a big deal and a lot of things changed after the event. But I want to put it into perspective. In 2024, ~62,800 people in Europe died to heat-related events.
- paxys 1y agoI doubt the exchange infrastructure will be physically located in Texas.
- HolyLampshade 1y agoIn fact, it won’t be. Which is why NYSE was so quick to rebrand NYSE Chicago as NYSE Texas when TXSE made the announcement they were launching in Equinix NY4 in Secaucus. The only real differentiator these guys would have had (outside of listings rules) would have been location, but they opted for the lower resistance of locating with all the other markets.
- chronic74939 1y ago> Hope they have ample backup power Texas has more reliable electricity than California considering the California electricity provider PG&E shuts off the electricity multiple times a year when it gets windy outside, to prevent power lines falling (due to lazy maintenance) and starting a wildfire I wonder where the California’s additional 13% tax on capital gains is being spent? SF parking ticket enforcement?
- tsunamifury 1y agoWhat did California have to do with this other than everything you are saying being laughable cope and false. (Regional controlled brownouts and state wide power grid failure are not comparable)
- lighthazard 1y agoWondering why you'd bring up California in a discussion about Texas.
- wmeredith 1y agoWhataboutism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
- bdcravens 1y ago"us versus them", "blue vs red", "liberals vs conservatives" Texas is the favorite punching bag of the left, and California is the favorite punching bag for the right. When one side is attacked, they defensively jump to the default. Which is kind of ironic, when you consider there's more Democrats in Texas than in many "blue" states, and the inverse is also true for California.
- Braxton1980 1y agoI can find many Republican representatives, Trump, and media personalities insulting New York with sweeping generalizations and hateful rhetoric. The only negative comments from Democrat representatives and the media on the left I see is are critical of specific laws, for example abortion, but they don't insult the entire state or generalize. If you need specific quotes let me know.
- J_Shelby_J 1y agoEquinix Dallas was hours from running out of fuel during the last snowpocalypse.
- hackernewds 1y agoIt would be helpful for readers to know what Equinix is > Equinix's infrastructure supports the digital services businesses rely on, from cloud computing and enterprise applications to content delivery and financial trading platforms.
- the_duke 1y agoThey are a very popular "high end" server colocation provider and have their own network with many peering agreements. A lot of large companies put their servers into Equinix data centers.
- ddtaylor 1y agoIs this saying it was "hours away" and safe or "hours away" and nearly missed a disaster? I assume the latter.
- Wohlf 1y agoAn exchange having to stop trading and gracefully shut down their systems for a few days doesn't really strike me as a disaster though.