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re: Corpus Christi Data Center Refuses to Make Usage Data public, Avoids taxes
Posted on 6/15/26 at 11:12 am to UltimaParadox
Posted on 6/15/26 at 11:12 am to UltimaParadox
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A 2022 presentation by then-Assistant City Secretary Andrea Gardner predicted revenues of $32 to $50 million over a 10-year period in exchange for the city’s de-annexation of the property, a decision that would enable Bootstrap to escape more than $70.5 million in franchise fees and sales tax on its electricity use.
Why go the de-annexation route instead of tax abatements or credits? Seems like this took away any power the city had to deal with issues in other ways. They could have promised credits or abatements of $70 million of actual taxes and fees collected (minus expected revenue) instead of waiting on payments like a regular creditor. This also has to have affected any property taxes the city could have collected.
Even create a tax district where taxes collected would go towards infrastructure supporting the project including the additional pipeline that was eventually added anyway and toward improving the water supply.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 11:19 am to UltimaParadox
Corpus city government seems like a bunch of idiots.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 11:21 am to KamaCausey_LSU
I mean it makes sense if you could monitor the diffusing so the salt level doesn’t get too high to kill marine life. I’m not an engineer so I don’t know if that can be done or not.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 11:24 am to ragincajun03
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This whole data center/AI “race” is probably going to end up causing more problems than creating solutions.
This data center is a bitcoin mine, those type of data centers are notorious for being water and electricity hogs.
The new data centers being built for AI are much more efficient per sq ft than bitcoin mines.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 11:40 am to UltimaParadox
From what I could find...
That area consumes 85 million gallons per day. Per day.
The Bitcoin data center there uses 127,000 gallons per day. Remember the area uses 85 million per day.
News Station
It does not seem that the data center is their biggest concern. It does make for click grabbing headlines though.
That area consumes 85 million gallons per day. Per day.
The Bitcoin data center there uses 127,000 gallons per day. Remember the area uses 85 million per day.
News Station
It does not seem that the data center is their biggest concern. It does make for click grabbing headlines though.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 12:10 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
They should just sell it to Morton's.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 12:12 pm to BHM
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That area consumes 85 million gallons per day.
Assuming a metro population of about 450,000, that would be almost 200 gallons per person per day. That seems like a lot.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 12:42 pm to sledgehammer
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I’m not an engineer so I don’t know if that can be done or not.
There are 22,000 active desalinization plants around the world, so one could assume that it's been figured out.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 1:13 pm to UltimaParadox
Is this another way for globalists to force people in 15 minute cities?
Posted on 6/15/26 at 1:28 pm to UltimaParadox
Far leftist author. She's a Glowarmer
Posted on 6/15/26 at 8:44 pm to sledgehammer
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mean it makes sense if you could monitor the diffusing so the salt level doesn’t get too high to kill marine life. I’m not an engineer so I don’t know if that can be done or not.
I got curious so I looked into what has been done in Louisiana. And it can be done and will likely not cause environmental damage. The LOOP deepwater port sends their brine through a diffuser 2.5 miles offshore south of Fourchon. But the issue is Fed/EPA/NEPA approval which could take years to decades. Right now with Trump in office would probably be their best chance to get it through though.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 8:49 pm to CR4090
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Corpus city government seems like a bunch of idiots.
They are. Our combined lake levels were down to 7%, and these cocksuckers are still tabling discussions on desal plants for later dates. It’s all of them. They all suck shite, and at this point they are just arguing for political scoreboard points. Instead of solving an issue, they point fingers.
We are in an historic drought, and they want to bring in a date center to go along with the major industry that uses the majority of our water at a cut rate.
Watch a city council meeting. It’s laughable. Thankfully we got 4.5 inches of rain today, just hope the watershed got the same.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 8:52 pm to UltimaParadox
The best part is local higher-ups pushing for another data center because it will bring jobs. Are people really too stupid to understand that the construction jobs are temporary, and any long-term job probably influences the reduction of jobs elsewhere?
Why the frick is this city talking about growth when we don’t have a stable water supply for the existing population??
Why the frick is this city talking about growth when we don’t have a stable water supply for the existing population??
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:10 pm to ragincajun03
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This whole data center/AI “race” is probably going to end up causing more problems than creating solutions.
Nope. The solutions are going to be extraordinary. It’s very early in AI’s existence, but already…
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Castleman’s Disease (iMCD): AI successfully analyzed 4,000 existing medicines and identified a drug that placed a terminally ill patient into long-term remission when all other treatments had failed.Drug-Resistant Bacteria: AI designed and discovered entirely new antibiotic compounds that kill difficult bacteria, including MRSA and gonorrhea.Cancer: AI-developed molecules are currently in clinical trials to target solid tumors and lymphoma.Diagnostics: AI is heavily utilized to detect diseases earlier and more accurately, particularly in the diagnosis of breast cancer, lung cancer, and diabetic retinopathy.
AI will be the reason people start living for hundreds of years. In 400 years there will be a 400 year old and that will be due to AI.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:12 pm to Penrod
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In 400 years there will be a 400 year old and that will be due to AI.
Technology will be accelerating faster than ever at that point. Not sure I’d want to live for 400 years.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:18 pm to TexasTiger08
quote:Corpus has always been suffering from drought like conditions so why are they just realizing this is a problem. It seems like the city should’ve been discussing this 2 decades ago.
Our combined lake levels were down to 7%
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:21 pm to TexasTiger08
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Not sure I’d want to live for 400 years.
That sounds like wisdom to me.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:23 pm to TexasTiger08
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Why the frick is this city talking about growth when we don’t have a stable water supply for the existing population??
Exactly. Doesn’t Cheniere and the other plants that sprang up consume a ton of water at the expense of the population? My grandma has been a water Nazi for awhile now because the local news has been telling them to conserve as much as you can. There’s starting to be a real panic down there.
New jobs are good, but what are new jobs really worth once the water dries up and Corpus is under a state of emergency? The city fricked up big time with this one.
This post was edited on 6/15/26 at 9:29 pm
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:35 pm to UltimaParadox
It’s been raining its arse off in Texas. I got to think the city got some relief.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:38 pm to UltimaParadox
Nobody on earth wants data centers anywhere near them.
Elon’s idea of data centers in space might not be a bad idea, since that’s the only place they can put data centers without big protests.
With that being said, I’ll believe that the data centers in space will happen when I see it.
Elon’s idea of data centers in space might not be a bad idea, since that’s the only place they can put data centers without big protests.
With that being said, I’ll believe that the data centers in space will happen when I see it.
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