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Comment on Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand

Cort@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

No dummy, you’re missing a decimal point. California only pays 19 CENTS per kwh.

And if conservative Texas is so great how come they pay 20% more per kwh for electricity than deep blue Washington State?

Everything’s bigger in Texas, especially the idiots & excuses.

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Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Washington has hydroelectric sources. 67 percent. Wind and solar are a tiny portion of its energy mix. Even nuclear powet exceeds wind and solar. Nice try.

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- timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  The Texas grid is just better.
  
  As a Texan who has lost power, for weeks at a time, 4 times in the last 10 years, I disagree. I live near a major city and we lose power almost every time there’s strong wind, rain, or sub-freezing temps. Maybe you’re just lucky to live where you live? I’ve lived all over my city, and it’s surrounding suburbs, and it’s been pretty much the same everywhere.
  
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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Washington State?

Washing State has a ton of hydro, because they get a ton of rain in the mountains, thus near-constant hydro power supply. That really won’t work in Texas.

I live in Utah and we have pretty average prices (about $0.12-0.13/kWh), which is pretty decent considering we have a competitive amount of renewables and a similar lack of hydro options.

I grew up in WA and we had a lot of cool classes about the geography of the region, especially things like the Grand Coulee Dam. I even took my kids there to show how hydro works. We have dams here in UT, but they’re mostly to preserve water for the summer when we get almost no precipitation.

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obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Deep blue Washington state has the advantage of giant amounts of hydroelectric generation combined with a relatively small population to consume it.

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