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Supposedly, there is a long waiting line of people willing to build power plants and lines. What's going on in the nation's fossil fuel powerhouse? Don't they c
by downrightmike 2mo ago
Supposedly, there is a long waiting line of people willing to build power plants and lines. What's going on in the nation's fossil fuel powerhouse? Don't they care about the shareholders?
- altairprime 2mo agoIt's more that Texas is barely able to operate their grid at 100% of today's capacity demands without noteworthy outages and humiliating 100x/kwH surge pricing events, prior to datacenters requesting another 500% of the capacity they're unable to deliver competently today. And it's not like they can just build five more racks in a datacenter to solve that! One wonders if Texas will pass a bill like Oregon that charges datacenters for the capital infrastructure build costs (new generation plants, new transmission lines, etc.) of their demand — corporate graft as a state ethos is all well and good until you're evaluating Datacenters Per Nuclear Power Plant in serious, rather than comedic, terms.
- Karrot_Kream 2mo agoHave any links to this? I'm not super familiar with Texas's generation or grid.
- albertwang 2mo agoERCOT operates most of Texas’ grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Reliability_Council_of_Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Reliability_Council_o...
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- downrightmike 2mo agoI can't believe they have to pass a bill to do that, that should be expected at a minimum