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This is just a rehash of the map already available at datacentermap.com (it’s literally cited as their source). Not sure what KXAN is adding here. Also worth n
by cobolcomesback 1mo ago
This is just a rehash of the map already available at datacentermap.com (it’s literally cited as their source). Not sure what KXAN is adding here.
Also worth noting that a very loose definition of data center is used here that doesn’t fit the current colloquial usage of the term. One of the “data centers” listed in the middle of Austin, for example, is barely the size of a house and is actually just the switching infrastructure for a radio tower. Not every dot on this map is an energy-guzzling hyperscaler boogie man.
- Psillisp 1mo agoI much prefer the KXAN presentation of the data and the map layer styles. Did this claim to be a 'hyperscaler' map?
- sublinear 1mo agoTotally agree. The story is similar for all the dots in the middle of nowhere and small towns. That's half the map! If people are so curious, they should head on out there and see what the fuss is about. They're going to find a lot of sheds and random closets with a single rack at most. Knowing how this state operates, I wouldn't doubt a lot of these ended up on the list for small business tax purposes or subsidies. That's a different and much less interesting news story, though.
- Psillisp 1mo agoIt's almost like MOST OF TEXAS is 'in the middle of nowhere and small towns.' lol
- cryptonector 1mo agoA lot of these are decidedly not in the middle of nowhere. The corridor from San Antonio to Dallas, passing through Austin, is almost a continuous city, and it's becoming that.
- cryptonector 1mo agoKXAN is adding eyeballs. Maybe.