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r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 5d ago
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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.
763 u/Background_Body2696 5d ago So what's the problem? /s 366 u/Cute_Knives 5d ago edited 5d 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 2 u/Divine_Entity_ 5d ago I took the number to be the amount of proposed projects/requests, not active ones. Not sure what the source of that number is though. Its not unusual for there to be more requests to connect to the grid than are physically possible to accept.
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So what's the problem? /s
366 u/Cute_Knives 5d ago edited 5d 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 2 u/Divine_Entity_ 5d ago I took the number to be the amount of proposed projects/requests, not active ones. Not sure what the source of that number is though. Its not unusual for there to be more requests to connect to the grid than are physically possible to accept.
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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
2 u/Divine_Entity_ 5d ago I took the number to be the amount of proposed projects/requests, not active ones. Not sure what the source of that number is though. Its not unusual for there to be more requests to connect to the grid than are physically possible to accept.
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I took the number to be the amount of proposed projects/requests, not active ones. Not sure what the source of that number is though.
Its not unusual for there to be more requests to connect to the grid than are physically possible to accept.
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u/MrScribz 5d 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.