re: Texas halting approval of Data Centers until audits are completed!

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WTF does the epa have to do with costs of local utilities and potential blackouts from not enough power sources?

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Pollution and degradation of drinking water sources.

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When will Louisiana and Gov Landry do the same?

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Texas is more power grid and water stressed than Louisiana.

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The Chinese are running the same playbook the Russians ran against us. The Russians funded leftwing organizations to oppose US oil and gas drilling because it threatened their oil and gas markets. Now the Chinese are funding the left and gullible “Republicans” to oppose data centers for the same reasons.

The Chinese aren’t going to stop building data centers but they certainly want us to stop building the infrastructure.

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We don’t oppose data centers. If you haven’t noticed before, we have to be careful with our electrical grid. If it will strain the grid, there will need to be some expensive upgrades.

When I drink a glass of water it impacts the water supply. The narrative floating around the NIMBY crowd is the data centers are going to use all the water which is a lie for a big chuck of the east. When you make them generate their own power like xAI is doing with Colossus the positives outweigh the negatives where water is abundant.

BCvol.....I agree 100% on them generating their own power or at least help state add more generation. For the water side of things I've seen where aquifers could be tapped. I'm 100% against that except maybe to replenish a closed loop system due to losses. That is a much smaller scale than an open loop system.

It is foolish for a state not to tap the brakes on power usage and water usage. I'm all for states doing this. Texas is pretty tight on power currently and aquifers are precious and shouldn't be used to cool AI data centers that can easily afford a closed loop system.

Currently my water well is struggling NW Fort Worth with no rain in July or Aug.

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Also, the new data centers are designed with minimal water usage.

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The only water my data center used was sitting in a tank on top of the building to fill the sprinklers if they were triggered. Air conditioning was a different story, but that's not puling anything from an aquifer.

No rain for two months is insane. Places like that should be a no go for data centers.

Municipal water supplies shouldn’t be used for data centers either.

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The Tn River in Knoxville carries 4.6 billion gallons/day.

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Building the plants is not the issue, it is the water use that comes with them. Add that into it and xAI's Colossus water footprint will near the same as a city of 100,000.

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I hate to say it but this is so out of context. The Mississippi River carries 48 trillion gallons per day at Old River Structure south of Natchez. This is average flow per day; not peak. Also into consideration is water quality. Many of our power plants take in raw river water and use it once through, put a few degrees of heat, and return it to where it came from with no additives or treatment.

The paper mill I used to work at used 45 million gpd and it all had to be processed in and out.

Now to your point, you put this in AZ and you got a problem. In the SEC footprint it is not a problem.

Power supply is the biggest issue depending again on where it is and the availability of power or cogen capabilities.

From recent press on data centers I believe I could put a Methyl Ethyl Death plant and all its env and safety issues down the street from most of these people before they would have a data center.

The biggest problem Data Centers have is most everyone hates their owners. They are all big super rich tech companies and nobody likes them right now, left or right.

It’s interesting watching Texas fall

1. Overrun with jeets
2. Muslims creating enclaves and soon to follow sharia law
3. Becoming anti business
4. The rapid rise of communist politicians

The Texas culture I grew up with is withering on a vine

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President Donald Trump criticized Texas Governor Greg Abbott's recent temporary pause on new data center approvals, calling the policy a "mistake". Trump argued that the facilities bring massive economic value that could eventually rival Texas oil, whereas Abbott defended the restriction as a necessary audit to protect local water supplies and the state power grid.

Trump is pushing the shite. Abbott did exactly what TEXANS have been asking for. Sid Miller finally naw'd his ear enough.

By the way, your meme, Bless your heart.