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Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity
- sameers 5mo agohttps://archive.ph/2g0QI https://archive.ph/2g0QI
- jnakano89 5mo agoAbout half of America’s off-grid energy projects are in Texas. The OpenAI/Oracle data center in Shackelford County is running on its own gas plant. That’s the real Texas advantage. It’s not just taxes or cheap power. It’s that you can put the power plant and the inference cluster in the same operating loop to avoid waiting years in an interconnection queue.
- frollogaston 5mo agoThose companies building AI datacenters in Texas are still mostly hiring for higher-paid office positions (like SWE) in the Bay Area, Seattle, NYC, etc because that's where the leadership still is. Before this, it was the same, California had almost 0 datacenters while the rest were in like SC, OR, TX, NV, IA. You could argue CA should've been more receptive to datacenters because they bring decent jobs, but I don't see a reason to focus so much on them.
- Eggpants 5mo agoThe construction of data centers brings jobs, most of the running of data centers is done remotely. There are more security guards than on site tech workers. Just look at the size of the parking lots. In Ashburn Va, a single tech will be assigned to multiple data centers further reducing the number of “decent jobs”.
- cactacea 5mo ago> In the early 2020s Texas was luring in remote workers And not a single one of the people I know that moved there want to still live there. ymmv I guess
- kyouens 5mo agoPlease let the zillions of people still fogging into my hometown (an Austin suburb) know!
- anon291 5mo agopeople move to Texas thinking it has low taxes. It doesn't. Washington state has a much lower tax burden. For a normal earner, California has a lower tax burden than Texas. It is surprisingly insanely high tax. Of course California also has a much larger safety net than Texas. So for most working people it's a no brainer as to which state is better
- pyuser583 5mo agoThen why are so many people moving to Texas?
- frollogaston 5mo agoBecause it's cheaper, partially because yes taxes are lower but also because it's just cheaper. The weather makes Texas less desirable than California, and it's almost as if they tax based on that.
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- halfmatthalfcat 5mo agoSo they move to the complete opposite end of the spectrum where not three years ago Texas was human trafficking migrants to other states? Quite the change of hearts.
- Recurecur 5mo agoI believe the correct term is “illegal aliens”, not “migrants”. They weren’t “trafficked”, they were “relocated”.
- Rover222 5mo agoCalifornia is an incredible example of how to drop the ball when running a powerful state. Texas is of course on the other end of the spectrum in terms of regulation and being business-friendly. Something more in the middle of the two is obviously ideal.
- asdff 5mo agoIt is astounding how many of CA's problems stem from across the board downzoning post 1960s.
- laughing_man 5mo agoCalifornia's problems are going to magnify as time goes on. The state budget has always been a fiction they could paper over because the state had high growth. As growth slows it becomes harder and harder to provide services using debt.
- curiouslearner1 5mo agoI’ve heard this a lot and am curious to learn why this is the case. As an employee at firms in SoCal then NorCal, I only enjoyed my living and work time in CA. Perhaps, I would see differently as a business owner? Curious to become an informed citizen and learn what isn’t working in CA
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