<![CDATA[“\Winter Storm Uri is still fresh on all of our constituents’ minds—and our minds—and people naturally have a fear that this could trigger another disaster as we had in Winter Storm Uri if we have too much demand.”]]>“\Winter Storm Uri is still fresh on all of our constituents’ minds—and our minds—and people naturally have a fear that this could trigger another disaster as we had in Winter Storm Uri if we have too much demand.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-legislature-data-center-boom-water/

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As someone who works in the German energy sector, I still can't get over the fact that Texas has its own, isolated backbone grid. That's just crying for blackouts, even before you add those data centers!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_power_transmission_grid

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