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Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Every Texan I know

So none?

I lived in TX while I was stationed there for like 3 years. Exactly 0 people I've met there had a generator.

and the average wage in Texas

The cost of living is also significantly less.

California or Washington

Where it's double my mortgage payment to have a 2 be apartment?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I lived in TX while I was stationed there for like 3 years. Exactly 0 people I’ve met there had a generator.

I think that it's a good idea to have a generator in places that get serious storms, and coastal Texas can get hurricanes. I don't think that this is something specific to Texas' power generation, which is what I think the parent commenter is complaining about. Florida, which really gets whacked with hurricanes, is somewhere I'd really want to have a generator.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Texas is big. You have tornados in the north, hurricanes in the south, and a lot of nothin' in the west. Some areas it makes sense to have a generator, but in many parts, it really doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I don’t think that this is something specific to Texas’ power generation, which is what I think the parent commenter is complaining about.

I'd rather take their statement for what it literally was. Since that's what they went out of their way to explain. And since you're not them...

Very few Texans I knew (with the number being literally 0)... for years of living there. And myself during that time. Did not have a generator. That's it. Short of them providing any actual evidence of their claim. It's been dispelled. That's it.

Should they have one? I don't really care to comment deeply on that. I didn't see a point to having one while I lived there. So I would assume most people would also come to the same conclusion.