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

• 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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    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I recognize that failing, but afaiu, it applied to a limited number of customers who “gambled on variable rates”. The political leadership there also shit talks renewables, putting false blame on them for grid failures, but the actual operational environment still permits a lot of renewable expansion: The basis for calling their system the least corrupt.

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      • cibco@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        So their renewable expansion is so good that it out ways the fact Texas never joined the east or west interconnect?

        That is the biggest corruption, and it is the whole reason their grid is so unreliable. But iteruptions in sevice can be good for the people making money from the sales if these goods. It’s like racketeering.

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      • throwback3090@lemmy.nz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Do you genuinely think the folks who “gambled” really understood the implications?

        I mean I’ll grant you California is a shitshow but it’s been a shitshow since republicans got on their knees for Enron in the 90s. How about Florida, which has been a red state for 80% of the last 30 years, low regulation, but instead of building new power they are keeping nukes going well past their service life?

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