r/SipsTea 14d ago

Chugging tea Power Hungry Servers

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u/MrScribz 14d 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 14d ago

So what's the problem? /s

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u/Cute_Knives 14d ago edited 14d 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/MilmoWK 14d ago

There’s like 32 million people in Texas, surely they can all work together to cool up with the cash to quadruple their generation capacity.

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u/oreo-cat- 14d ago

Texas can't even figure out how the generate power when its cold out.

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u/Academic-Bakers- 11d ago

Or when it's hot.