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This is hilarious because a year or so ago these idiots were saying that building a bunch of data centers would stabilize the Texas grid and were encouraging building them.
But what do you expect from a southern state so corrupt it can't supply enough power to heat homes in the winter and builds fertilizer factories across the street from schools.
Done right, it actually would.
Powering those centres would require building ton of new power generation, and in the case of a risk of running out of power, non critical infrastructure - like a datacenter - can be disconnected from the grid to redirect that power to the uses that actually matter. Like here in Finland, if we are risking blackouts for homes during winter for example, they will cut power to factories and stuff like that first in an effort to prevent it. It's part of the contracts for commercial electricity connections, and they have to just accept that.
The bigger the section of non-critical infra you have, the more capacity you can free up in an emergency.
In Texas, though? Not very optimistic it would ever work that way.
No, they would not build enough because that would reduce profit. And households would pay more because demand is up, and households would get disconnected. We've already seen how they do things.
Case in point, they've reversed their outlook already.
That's ok our fucking stupid Oklahoma government will tell them to come here were apparently we have plenty of water and electricity.
Fucking morons going kill us all.
In the West, Texas explosion, the schools came more than 20 years after the plant, to be fair.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5047761/
The order of operations does not matter in the slightest. The government allowed it to happen, and Texas had no laws to prevent it.
The rest of the world has zoning laws to prevent that kind of idiocy.