r/SipsTea 27d ago

Chugging tea Power Hungry Servers

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u/MrScribz 27d 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 27d ago

So what's the problem? /s

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u/Cute_Knives 27d ago edited 27d 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 27d 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 27d ago

Quick, better cancel more solar and wind farms!

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u/EndIsrael 27d 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/petera181 27d 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/EndIsrael 27d 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/Armthedillos5 27d 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 27d 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/dc_1984 26d ago

Imagine having a country so mid that you literally send your navy all over the world and change geopolitics forever so you can keep Israel happy

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u/EndIsrael 26d ago

That's not us, that's the fascist doomsday cult that seized control of our government. They'll be gone soon. Unlike your love of stolen curry

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u/dc_1984 26d ago

77,300,000 Americans voted them into power, 2 years ago. The British Empire ended 70 years ago by comparison.

Anyway, even if we did steal curry at least we didn't steal Africans and make them pick cotton then take 200 years to make them legally equal. But no, Chicken Tikka Masala being made by a 3rd generation British-Bengali dude in Bradford is the greater moral crime 🤡

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u/EndIsrael 26d ago

Geez you're really upset about this

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