Texas Pauses Data Center Projects Until Further Audits

[OpEpsteinFury]

Curious what you guys think.

I’ll save my opinion for now, because baddog will feverishly disagree for the sake of disagreeing with a very stable genius such as myself. 

[OlDawg]

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Power can even be sold back to the grid similar to our cogen plants at industrial facilities now. Provide incentives for using Texas technology.

Water can be re-chilled and recycled. No different than on our naval vessels.

People are freaking out right now due to hype, and I wonder—and have read—that some may be being influenced by China as they don’t want the U.S. to lead in AI. Another ‘arms race’. Plus, this technology is science fiction scary stuff to many.

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I do own a small sliver of a nuclear ETF, and am pro small nuclear modules being used in multiple ways. I also believe the U.S. must lead--safely--in AI.

[baddog]

1 hour ago, OlDawg said:

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Power can even be sold back to the grid similar to our cogen plants at industrial facilities now. Provide incentives for using Texas technology.

Water can be re-chilled and recycled. No different than on our naval vessels.

People are freaking out right now due to hype, and I wonder—and have read—that some may be being influenced by China as they don’t want the U.S. to lead in AI. Another ‘arms race’. Plus, this technology is science fiction scary stuff to many.

EDIT: Full Disclosure

I do own a small sliver of a nuclear ETF, and am pro small nuclear modules being used in multiple ways. I also believe the U.S. must lead--safely--in AI.

I was concerned with the water usage and the acreage needed for these centers. I believe 6 centers are planned for the Houston area alone. 

[OlDawg]

2 hours ago, baddog said:

I was concerned with the water usage and the acreage needed for these centers. I believe 6 centers are planned for the Houston area alone. 

I thought this was very cool. Pasted from the Tribune link in my previous post above.

And the excess heat from power generation can drive thermal desalination systems. In the Permian Basin, where oil and gas operations produce vast quantities of contaminated water known as produced water, that means a single reactor could simultaneously generate clean electricity and treat water that would otherwise be a waste stream.

The heat from the reactor could vaporize the water, leaving salts and other contaminants behind for disposal, before condensing the vapor into clean water, said Douglass Robinson, Natura’s founder and CEO.

“While we’re producing the electricity, the waste heat off of that electrical generation is the heat we could utilize for the desal,” Robison said. “So we do both at the same time.”

 

[thetragichippy]

4 hours ago, OlDawg said:

People are freaking out right now due to hype,

Another Y2K?

[UT alum]

4 hours ago, OlDawg said:

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Power can even be sold back to the grid similar to our cogen plants at industrial facilities now. Provide incentives for using Texas technology.

Water can be re-chilled and recycled. No different than on our naval vessels.

People are freaking out right now due to hype, and I wonder—and have read—that some may be being influenced by China as they don’t want the U.S. to lead in AI. Another ‘arms race’. Plus, this technology is science fiction scary stuff to many.

EDIT: Full Disclosure

I do own a small sliver of a nuclear ETF, and am pro small nuclear modules being used in multiple ways. I also believe the U.S. must lead--safely--in AI.

I have not heard of this technology.  Sounds like it would cover a multitude of problematic issues.  I am a rock ribbed environmentalist, but a pragmatist as well.  Any significant reduction in C02 emissions will have to depend on expansion of nuclear power. Cleaning toxic water would be a super side benefit. The U. S. must lead in all advanced technology.