beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoTexas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are 5 times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratoriumwww.texastribune.orgexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1259arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1259arrow-down1external-linkTexas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are 5 times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratoriumwww.texastribune.orgbeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squarelastlybutfirstly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoI think you’ve got that mixed up with The Big Freeze of 2021. Everyone was calling for heads to roll after that fiasco, and are still pissed off.
I think you’ve got that mixed up with The Big Freeze of 2021. Everyone was calling for heads to roll after that fiasco, and are still pissed off.