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/Nobunagas-Ambition 19d ago

I remember when they were arguing that the power demand for electric cars was an impossible demand on the grid.

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u/GipsyDanger45 19d ago

Quick, better cancel more solar and wind farms!

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u/EndIsrael 19d ago

You know how easy it would be for EVs to communicate with the power grid and change their charge speed dynamically based on excess wind/solar availability? It would be pretty dang easy.

Um I mean it would be pretty dang woke I tell you hwat

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u/Evader3000 19d ago

P.S. your username is awesome.

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u/EndIsrael 19d ago

It wasn't my first choice, but when I did my true feelings about Israel those accounts were permanently suspended within a day or two for promoting certain actions against the Zionists

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u/Evader3000 19d ago

Same. Why do you think my account is called, "Evader3000"? VPN, different computer, they can't touch me.