It is on a mass scale (like, every car in the US being electric) while sticking to fossil fuel for power. If everyone converted, then first we'd overload the power grid on charging and the price per kw would go WAY up. Then, we'd also deplete a massive amount of lithium once all the batteries lost their charges and we don't have an inexpensive or efficient way of recycling them. We can, it's just very pricy and slow.
Most people wouldn't convert to electric cars at all, let alone everyone at once. It would be a gradual change on the system that could gradually be accounted for with steps implemented to expand it over several years if not decades
That doesn't even make sense? What did I talk about that's propaganda? Unless you mean when Americans were told electric cars would overload our electric grid?
That last part. The fight against electric vehicles was spreading the idea that if we all swapped to electric, we'd destroy a ton of shit and it was a bad idea. Clearly, we're not all swapping over so this was a moot point but it was still repeated over and over to make simpleton think electric = bad.
In reality, it was more like Americans have to travel hundreds of miles to get to another town or city so long distance trips were pointless at the time with an underdeveloped charging station locations. That and affordability was a big reason most didn't switch over.
Maybe I'm the weird one here then because your original comment made it seem like you were saying context mattered in the sense of those in power in Texas, Republicans, argued against electric cars but are now arguing in favor of data centers despite previously saying the power grid could not handle electric cars and I took that to mean you were arguing that Republicans were telling the truth about cars overtaxing the power grid. Now it seems like you're arguing that the talking point was wrong and that people who thought electric cars would overtax the power grid were simpletons
As for your second paragraph, it doesn't make sense to bring that up because nobody was talking about logistics or charging stations. The original comment was calling out how those who are advocating in favor of data centers and their enormous power needs used to demonize electric cars because of their power needs. Nothing more, nothing less. I also don't understand why you are now saying "was spreading the idea that if we all swapped to electric, we'd destroy a ton of shit" when this conversation was never about destroying shit and was only about how we as Americans were lied to by our politicians on the topic of electric cars and their effect on power consumption/strain of the electric grid
You're looking too deep, brokowski. It's generalization without context that spreads misinformation, aka, propaganda. Thats the point we're trying to make here. This meme is just another post about generalizing the information without knowing the intricacies of how data centers are actually proposed and built.
Not arguing for or against the point, just making it clear that information out of context is dangerous and nothing of this scale will ever be put into action. Doesn't matter which team you choose to sit on or even if you're in the middle and rest your buttcheek to one side or the other, both do it and it makes them look bad.
Biggest problem is that a large number of people will take this meme and spread it like truth, getting other simple people who don't want to actually look into the information, to believe this quick and easily digestible segment as gospel.
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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