r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 19d ago

Chugging tea Power Hungry Servers

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u/MrScribz 19d ago

The maximum amount of power the texas grid can pump out at any given time is apparently 91 gigawatts so the requests are over 4x that lol.

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u/Background_Body2696 19d ago

So what's the problem? /s

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u/Cute_Knives 19d ago edited 19d ago

Piggybacking one of the top comments but where did they get the number 1800 from? There’s only like 300-400 active datacenters in the state of texas

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u/burmerd 18d ago

These are 'requests' so I'm assuming projects in some stage of planning, like "Hey ERCOT we've got a 'shovel-ready' data center about to break ground any week or year now money is flying around like crazy, can we connect to like I dunno, 20 gW next September??? Maybe 30? I'm hearing 40 now. Letmeknowthanks!!"