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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

#21

Why 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.

Counterpoint: you're wrong

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Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

#22

Why 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.

Clean energy development was doing well, was powering more than half our needs, and was creating more jobs than oil. Guess that wasn’t good enough.

Oh and it reduced our green house gas emissions. That was the catch.

(I got coal rolled just yesterday, in Tahoe. Who knew that was still a thing…)

Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

#23

Why 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.

Because the federal government made it effectively illegal to build nuclear reactors, and there are no more rivers to be dammed.

Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

#24

Why 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.

You don't seem to realize Texas has huge number clean energy build outs and has been for quite a few years. They lead in wind generation and commercial solar generation.

Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

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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…

When experiments fail the constituents pay the price, not the experimenters.

> When experiments fail the constituents pay the price, not the experimenters.

Are you arguing that the leaders of a state, who were elected by the constituents, should not experiment and try make things better? By definition, some experiments will fail.

Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

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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…

When experiments fail the constituents pay the price, not the experimenters.

Nevertheless, experiments are necessary. Political entrepreneurialism is necessary if you want anything to improve.

You can experiment on everyone, or you can experiment at the local level. One is obviously preferable over the other.

Nobody has all the answers.

Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

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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…

> It is a machine for us to iterate on our present and future prosperity. The former middle class has entered the chat.

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Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

#29
post #15
post #11

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…

When experiments fail the constituents pay the price, not the experimenters.

Maybe they should consider voting.

Re: Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

#30

Why 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.

Texas leads the nation in raw renewable energy production. Solar, wind, and nuclear are hardly maligned there.
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