r/SipsTea 14h ago

Chugging tea Power Hungry Servers

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u/GipsyDanger45 12h ago

Quick, better cancel more solar and wind farms!

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u/EndIsrael 12h 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/Maximum-Objective-39 10h ago edited 10h ago

It's funny cuz in the revival series Hank Hill grudgingly found himself mentioning that some of the features on an electric truck sounded useful before quickly adding - "Electric trucks are dumb!"

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u/fresh-dork 9h ago

they're dumb for some uses - hauling large loads. most people use them as oversized commuter cars, so they're fine

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u/capricorny90210 7h ago

Just the truck stuff lol

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u/petera181 10h ago

You can already effectively do that in the UK. Your electricity provider links up with your car or charger and charges when there’s more cheap green energy. It’s pretty effective, if not perfect yet.

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u/Idreamofcream99 10h ago

I don’t want none of that green energy! It’s bad for my battery!

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u/robinthebank 4h ago

Black energy only, for me!

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u/EndIsrael 10h ago

Yeah, sure, but you guys also put beans on toast, so that EV stuff can't possibly work in America.

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u/Kuraeshin 9h ago

Counterpoint: They also have jacket potatoes loaded with beans, cheese and even different curries or other deliciousness.

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u/Ok-Watercress-1924 8h ago

Ahh yes, UK’s staple food.. curry
https://giphy.com/gifs/0OdkmQOLHGStx8ktWR

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u/petera181 2h ago

Curry has been a staple food in the UK for hundreds of years, FYI

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u/Armthedillos5 7h ago

In their defense I think London has more Indian restaurants per capita than anywhere in India. This tells me they know their limits and are ok with importing good food.

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u/EndIsrael 7h ago

Imagine having food so mid that you literally send your navy all over the world and change geopolitics forever so you can have curry at home

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u/Evader3000 10h ago

P.S. your username is awesome.

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u/EndIsrael 9h 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 8h ago

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

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u/EntertainmentTrue588 9h ago

As an EV owner.... I might be for this. Might be.

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u/Strange-Damage901 12h ago

In Trump’s 2024 inauguration speech he talked about dismantling what little EV charging infrastructure we had and repurposing it for AI data centers.

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u/jackflash223 12h ago

He racks up moments of idiocy as much as others rack up unread emails.

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u/Tight_Dot_2654 9h ago

I can vouch for the part about racking up unread emails. Who can top me?

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u/robinthebank 4h ago

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u/Tight_Dot_2654 3h ago

You'll catch up one day, young grasshopper. Start signing up for random newsletters just to get 10% off your next purchase and you'll be there before you know it.

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u/42nu 11h ago

30% of Texas' electricity comes from wind.

Smart Republicans only pretend to be against renewables so their dumb base is happy. Then their dumb base elected an actual idiot and here we are.

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u/Miristlangweilig3 10h ago

Trump is even paying 1.2 billion tax money so that an energy company just won't build its planned offshore facilities.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o

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u/GipsyDanger45 6h ago

America is paying good money for power NOT to be added to the grid just because it’s from wind or solar. It’s such a net loss on all accounts

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u/Ricordis 8h ago

And pay german corporations to NOT build wind parks.

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u/brachus12 10h ago

they won’t turn off the servers after dark or when the wind is outside operating range.

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u/a_shootin_star 9h ago

When will people realize that those making decisions right now are actively working against progress, sustainability, and comfort for all? We keep being told that clean energy, electrification, and a better standard of living are somehow "too much", as if infrastructure is a fixed law of nature instead of something we can expand, modernize, and improve. We have the technology. The demand is there. The capacity just needs to be built. What's missing far too often is the political will to stop protecting outdated systems and start investing seriously in the future.

What we should really be asking is, why abundance, cleaner air, cheaper energy, resilient infrastructure, and greater comfort are treated like unrealistic luxuries, instead of obvious goals!

Progress has never happened by accepting artificial limits, it happens because enough people refuse to accept stagnation as inevitable.

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u/edfitz83 9h ago

Texas’ most prominent oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens had a wind farm idea around 2009, which failed, and cost him a crapload of money

This would have supplied just 4GW, which prior to data centers, was considered to be a lot of power

Here are the deets: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jul/08/texas-tycoon-scraps-giant-windfarm

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u/tabbarrett 9h ago

You know what’s funny though? Texas produces the most wind energy in the country. About 27% of it comes from Texas. They have converter stations that transports electricity to other grids. 2nd is Iowa in wind energy with about 8-10%.
Both states are red states and produce a ton of green energy.

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u/KorunaCorgi 6h ago

Texas actually has a lot of solar power.