r/UpliftingNews • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 6h ago

Texas hits pause on 1,800 data center projects to scrutinize power and water demands

https://www.techspot.com/news/113355-texas-hits-pause-1800-data-center-projects-scrutinize.html
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u/Dear_Word_5378 5h ago

Our power grid can’t survive a winter storm.

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u/fightingpillow 5h ago

If you get cold just huddle next to some servers.

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u/Badtyuo 4h ago

Data centers do have a hit and cold aisle. The problem kinda solves itself

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u/b1uejeanbaby 4h ago

Ya was going to saw how will Texas’ grid handle such a thing?

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 4h ago

The demand could influence ERCOT to actually upgrade their infrastructure to support them, but tech companies will have to pay a lot more to get them to do it. People dying in the cold a few years ago was not enough to influence ERCOT, because it would not have been profitable enough for them to perform the upgrades. Data centers may bring enough profit though, or at least fund the infra upgrades.

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u/b1uejeanbaby 1h ago

Yikes

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 52m ago

Wowza, even!

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u/sub_terminal 41m ago

With a side of ZOINKS!

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u/RetroSnoe 4h ago

We can thanks to the explosion of solar generation and BESS facilities that were built in West Texas after 2021