Greg Abbott raked in $9 million from data center donors
www.texastribune.org
About $5 million of the haul came from donors who develop, own or operate data centers, a Tribune analysis found. The other share of the donations came from people and groups with indirect financial ties.
  • ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    They idea of putting data-centers in Texas astounds me… Hurricanes on the gulf, and tornadoes throughout make it a horrible place for computing…

    Add that to the fact that their power grid is held to gether with duct-tape and bailing wire… There’s gonna be a lot of generators running a lot of the time…

    • yessikg@fedia.io
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      1 day ago

      There don’t need to be any generators, if data centers were forced to be off-grid and depend on renewable energy only

      • ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netEnglish
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        23 hours ago

        For solar, a datacenter would require 7.5 million square feet of solar panels and around 2 gigawatt-hours of battery capacity to survive a year completely off grid, and that’s in perfect conditions.

        Though it could be done with 11-12 3.4MW onshore wind turbines…

        the “Average” datacenter requires 10Megawatts of power to run… That’s not taking into account that AI datacenters run 10-12x more power…

        Nano-Nuclear is probably the best option for any of these…it’s constant, the fuel rods last decades, and it’s not weather dependent… Though I’d still have the batteries in the mix because no power source is 100% reliable.