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Texas Republicans have a data center problem (www.texastribune.org)

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“I’ve always been committed,” said Schroeder, 62, of her allegiance to the GOP. That is, until she learned about a massive data center, part of OpenAI’s $500 billion Stargate project, going up south of her property.

The project has been championed by her party’s standard-bearers, President Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott. But the more Schroeder learned about data centers popping up across the state, the more she became convinced her party was corrupted by industry lobbyists, seemingly brushing off what she saw as an existential threat to rural Texans like her.

So in late March, at a GOP precinct meeting in Falls County, Schroeder suggested they propose a data center ban at the upcoming state Republican convention, which sets the party’s priorities.

“They started screaming and yelling, and you would have thought I started World War III,” Schroeder said. “They said, ‘We won’t accept that, Rena. You’re gonna have to revise it to regulations.’”

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[–] violentfart@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Only a problem when it affects her directly.

[–] aburrito@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago

Tale as old as time

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

According to a Texas Tribune analysis, at least 82 data centers, or nearly 60% of those that are either planned or under construction, are in state House districts that voted for President Donald Trump and elected a Republican state representative in 2024. Meanwhile, a March Quinnipiac poll found that 65% of Americans oppose the building of an AI data center in their community.

Wow, hordes of data centers sucking up vast amounts of electricity in a state that only went through a huge power crisis 5 years ago in 2021

Is it time to place Polymarket bets on another power crisis?

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Only if you think they will actually finish and turn on the new ones before the jig is up.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 3 weeks ago

Texas Republicans have created problems for so many other people that I don’t have time to care. Sorry, folks. Enjoy your blackouts and water shortages.

[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And Texas has struggled to maintain its electrical grid a lot in recent years.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

"Struggled" implies that we're trying. Our Republican politicians actively hate all of us, regardless of ideals.

[–] subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Their solution to this has been to announce that the data centers will be allowed to build their own generators. So instead of power outages and high energy costs they'll just suck up the water and spew shit in the air and probably dump shit in the water they dont use.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

Spewing heated water directly back into rivers is a problem too. The native fish can't deal with heated water, and heating the water itself changes the chemistry, such as dissolved gases and minerals.