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

• throwback3090@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think they mean “the same forces that led to the grid collapsing every few years – prioritizing profit above all else, and the government giving zero fucks-- are the same forces which trigger new development to be in renewables with zero regulation or oversight”

  Conservatives always write about their broken-clock-right-twice successes in a similar way.

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Compared to California, where everything is done to increase customer rates, or most other states where long wait lines to connect power occur, you can measure effective corruption by how much energy additions are made, including home solar. You can be critical of their exposure to power system failures, but that doesn’t make the system corrupt.

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  • throwback3090@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Your measure of corruption is what now? How many new things are built regardless of their need or what impacts they may have?

    Very…unique standpoint.

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    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just that the lack of cheap energy built/connected is a function of all of the obstacles put in the way of those projects. They get done in Texas more than other places that “put out a better virtue vibe”, but behind the scenes put up obstacles.

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      • cibco@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Its interesting how you can only talk positively about Texas by comparing it to others.

        Can you answer this question without comparing Texas to any other state or entity: How is charging hundreds of dollars per kWh during storms in the best interests of the “regular electricity consumers”?

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