If Virginia or Louisiana should profit by this then so be it. Californian land-use laws will have a net effect of -8 house seats against Texas. That is good. It should happen. If Texans will be poorer so Virginians will be richer, that is also good. May the American federal system reign forever. Allowing for states as experiments and letting them suffer their consequences is good. It is a machine for us to iterate on our present and future prosperity.
Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
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Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
#12Why can’t these idiots just mandate that you have to build out clean energy to power the data centers. It’s such a simple bit of legislation that they just will not do.
Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
#13I only have one question is this legally binding in US in any way if not what's the point virtue signalling? Can openai make it's books public to ensure that it has the money to fulfill it's extra commitments.
Not legally binding, no. This is more of a lobbying attempt, Abbott just paused all new data center development in Texas until the state can audit them, they have an interconnection queue of about 474GW, ERCOT can't handle it that's more than 5x Texas's peak electricity demand.
That would be more half the entire grid load of the USA
Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
#14They’d do better with a bribe, Texas runs on corruption. I’m sure the campaign contribution checks are already written though
That's probably already happened. This is smoke and mirrors. Monorail...MoNoRail...MONORAIL!!!!!
Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
#15If Virginia or Louisiana should profit by this then so be it. Californian land-use laws will have a net effect of -8 house seats against Texas. That is good. It should happen. If Texans will be poorer so Virginians will be richer, that is also good. May the American federal system reign forever. Allowing for states as experiments and letting them suffer their consequences is good. It is a machine for us to iterate on…
When experiments fail the constituents pay the price, not the experimenters.
Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
#16If Virginia or Louisiana should profit by this then so be it. Californian land-use laws will have a net effect of -8 house seats against Texas. That is good. It should happen. If Texans will be poorer so Virginians will be richer, that is also good. May the American federal system reign forever. Allowing for states as experiments and letting them suffer their consequences is good. It is a machine for us to iterate on…
Virginia has more power infrastructure in place but said infrastructure is already seeing significant DC build out; I know little about power distribution in Louisiana but would be surprised if there was extensive spare capacity in the transmission lines and generation facilities. I'm surprised that the rust belt hasn't seen more uptake since they had all that manufacturing capacity but the backing power generation/distribution may have atrophied in the intervening years.
Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
#17Why can’t these idiots just mandate that you have to build out clean energy to power the data centers. It’s such a simple bit of legislation that they just will not do.
To answer your question: Texas. Running on a platform of clean energy is political suicide in half of America, particularly in the south.
Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
#18Why can’t these idiots just mandate that you have to build out clean energy to power the data centers. It’s such a simple bit of legislation that they just will not do.
Oil companies squash all kinds of clean energy regulation.
Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
#19If Virginia or Louisiana should profit by this then so be it. Californian land-use laws will have a net effect of -8 house seats against Texas. That is good. It should happen. If Texans will be poorer so Virginians will be richer, that is also good. May the American federal system reign forever. Allowing for states as experiments and letting them suffer their consequences is good. It is a machine for us to iterate on…
> It is a machine for us to iterate on our present and future prosperity.
The former middle class has entered the chat.
Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
#20This is a collection of "OpenAI will boldly act in the abstract to provide air coverage for Texas leadership." With data centers under construction one would think they would have examples of successes or projects in progress available for reference. They'd claim credit if they had it so the silence is telling. Big tech has consistently valued profit and growth above good stewardship; the onus is entirely on OpenAI t…
Yeah if they were so committed to doing good, you'd think the billions of dollars they have spent would bear some evidence of that by now.