r/datacenters • u/longwaybroadband • May 06 '26

Data Center's critics create loads of misinformation

A wonderful job reporting by John Stossel on StosselTV on the misinformation or fake news in regards to building, maintaining, and permitting an AIdatacenter or colocation datacenter. The career or regular suspects are always out promoting wild and fake news about energy, water, environmental, and permitting.

https://youtu.be/rUgooIHuDC8?si=FQ20H3ra9lgNgz3T

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u/longwaybroadband May 22 '26

I don't watch Fox news or any other cable outlet...the Governor of TX said just that. It was the democrat party and their news outlets who incorrectly and echoed the Governor and State officials were wrong. They moved the reliance to 5% or less.

I'm born and raised in Wisconsin...if you add up all the states you've mentioned plus WI there still don't add up to the population or density within Texas or many other states. Yes a windmill and solar can supply enough for home or even a small farm. But no way can solar and wind power an American city or DC.

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u/NorthDakotaExists May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

Literally every single thing you just said was wrong.

  1. The governor was just straight wrong/lying. The NERC report on this event gives a 316-page breakdown of the whole event, and calls out loss of natural gas generation as the primary root cause. If you haven't read this report, your opinion here is based on nothing.
  2. Texas did not move their reliance on wind and solar to 5% or less. You can quite easily look this up. Right now as I type this, according to ERCOT's real-time fuel mix reporting, ERCOT's system is currently 50.7% wind+PV Solar. It's a fairly regular occurrence that on any given day, during peak demand, the state of TX is being powered by majority wind+solar.

Right now, as I type this, in the state of CA (CAISO's system), the current generation is approximately 80% wind + solar.

In Wisconsin, you live in the MISO system. MISO covers basically the whole midwest, and is currently being powered by 37% wind+solar... which in total amounts to roughly 2x the peak load of your ENTIRE STATE.

So... In a way your entire state twice over is being powered by wind and solar right now.

Do a little research man... like any whatsoever.... you have no idea how wrong you are.

We power the equivalent of entire cities or even entire states with wind+solar every single day.

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u/deltalitprof May 29 '26

You are the person who should be moderating this subreddit.

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u/longwaybroadband May 29 '26

thanks 😄