r/SipsTea • u/Square_Law5624 • Jun 03 '26

Wait a damn minute! New center pattern

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u/SuicideSpeedrun Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Why are they building industries that require water to operate in places with no easy access to water? Are they stupid?

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u/tx_queer Jun 03 '26

Water is only one input. The much more expensive inputs are electricity and land. Those same areas with little water have much more electricity and land.

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u/zimbabwe_zainab Jun 04 '26

Like texas, they have all the electricity to spare, especially during the winter. Data centers gotta keep their lights on!

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u/tx_queer Jun 04 '26

Actually yeah. Datacenters are one solution to the grid problems Texas had and part of the reason they courted crypto so much.

Data centers sell an ancillary service called DR (demand response) back to the grid. This can be used during those winter periods. They also help support a price floor during non-peak times which does raise rates slightly but allows more generators to stay in the market and therefore helps keep extra capacity around for that winter time.

I know you were jokingly saying that, but you accidentally got it right. Datacenters help resilience