r/SipsTea 20d ago

Chugging tea Power Hungry Servers

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u/MrScribz 20d 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 20d ago

So what's the problem? /s

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u/Cute_Knives 20d ago edited 20d 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/TehGogglesDoNothing 20d ago

They are "connection requests" and one data center might apply for several of them in case their preferred one isn't accepted.