AI data centers are trashing the Texas energy grid
AI data centers are trashing the Texas energy grid
Data centers are flocking to Texas. Real estate companies backed by private equity, along with Microsoft and Google, are buying up land, pushing out other developments, and trashing the state’s alr…
Not that it takes much to trash their grid
A category 1 hurricane sneezed on Houston and I was without power for 8 days in 95 degree heat. We need to seize the power grid back from private companies and hold it in public trust.
They literally overcharged the state for emergency generators that were too big to use during the hurricane clean up, purchased from a tiny no name company, surely for kickbacks, and they made a tidy profit off it too, by like 10 percent.
And now they want to recoup costs by raising our rates.
YOU CAUSED THIS BY NOT PERFORMING VEGETATIVE MAINTENANCE TO CUT COSTS.
Btw, the CEO of CenterPointless worked for PG&E, the company that set California on fire, due to a lack of vegetative maintenance. I'm pretty sure he was their Chief financial officer.
I like how nepo capitalism shuffles poor-performing dimwits from driving a car they are currently crashing to driving a car they are about to crash.
please unplug your usb devices they might bring down the grid
heyyyy i'm just a little birthday grid
If only Texans had a way to vote for leadership that could fix their electricity issues 🤔
Wow isn't having an unregulated grid the best? Anyway my AC is working just fine, thanks for asking.
watching Austin Energy capping my A/C and deciding to become a rabid supporter of Yud's call to airstrike data centers
whoa now they only have budget for this and only on a smaller heli
Don't you hate it when the idiots end up being right for all the wrong reasons?
I wonder if disused datacentres will end up being like many malls are today: dead and empty because the bubble popped and the money moved on.
That’s saying something, because it was already in rough shape
