Texas Pauses Data Center Grid Connections Amid Massive Power Demand
A viral post highlights a significant strain on the Texas power grid, noting that requests for new data center connections have reached 474 gigawatts. This figure is reportedly three times the state's current grid capacity and represents approximately 40% of the total electricity supply for the entire United States. In response to this surge in demand, Texas has implemented a temporary ban on connecting over 1,800 proposed data centers to the grid. The scale of this power requirement is being compared to the output of historical nuclear reactors, underscoring the immense energy needs of modern data infrastructure and the challenges of managing grid capacity in the state.
Why the fuck would they build in Texas anyway? They are not part of the national grid and, thus, have historically suffered mass failures which are not easily addressed by simply diverting from other sources. Every time there is a moderate ice storm in Texas it turns into a fucki
We gotta start building nuclear reactors
Skynet needs power
who would have thought texas has a bad power grid ? like every winter,summer, rain season for example
Great Scott, that's more than 1.21GW – all you need is a little bit plutonium.
I love that last random fact of measuring in Chernobyl reactors
I looked it up. It's estimated that 60-80% of that is ghost demand - duplicative & speculative requests trying to secure rights. Less than 2% of the proposed gigawatts in ERCOT's queue have actually achieved official public approval to energize. Texas leads the nation in new elec
just build a Dyson sphere, ez
What many people seem to not understand is that claims of datacenters creating jobs are absolutely horseshit. They are managed remotely and people who physically maintain them are hired as "gig workers" constantly moving between them. There are maybe 20-30 people on-site, while a
Let's build something power hungry and requiring constant cooling with fresh water in the state known for a) high tempreratures, b) limited water supply, c) terrible power grid. Americans are really something else ...