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-squareroofuskit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 hours agoThe 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.
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.