beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours agoTexas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are 5 times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratoriumwww.texastribune.orgexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1175arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1174arrow-down1external-linkTexas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are 5 times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratoriumwww.texastribune.orgbeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareanon_8675309@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 hours ago Tell them no. Period. Done. If you can’t tell them no, tell them they have to use renewables and provide their own power.
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