Texas is a world leader in renewable energy. Easy permitting, lots of space, lots of existing grid infrastructure from the o&g industry.

Why do you think datacenters have actually been built in Oregon?

What's the relevance of this article to the comment?

The comment is talking like Texas is a bastion of energy, when they've made the news multiple years in a row about how entire cities collapse over what most states would consider trivial amounts of snow. It is hard to be a world leader in energy and to also have a wiki on your recurring energy crisis issues.

Any downsides?

Texas.

Texas is a world leader in racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, flagrant disrespect for women's autonomy over their own bodies, religious fanaticism, terrible education system, frequent school shootings, armed road ragers, anti-environmental coal rollers, mentally unstable angry gun freaks, presidential assassins who can actually aim well, sunshine towns, white supremacists, violent highly armed far right militias, Confederate Lost Cause rebels, slavery apologists, violent insurrectionists, pardoned violent criminals, mouth breathing MAGA cult members, critical thinking opponents, decrepit electrical power infrastructure, pathological traffic jams, lack of public transportation and bicycle infrastructure, corrupt government, voter suppression, totally unjustified arrogance, enormous explosions from unregulated industries, etc.

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

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/21/texans-insurrection-...

What about hurricanes? Extreme weather events which spew a lot of water, wind and debris around might potentially do a lot of damage to a data center.

My kneejerk response was to point to the incoming administration, but the fact Stargate has been in the works for more than a year now says to me it's because of tax credits.

It's where the energy is for this project.

This is unfortunately paywalled but a good writeup on how the datacenter came to be: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/why-openai-and-oracl...

I'm not a subscriber so I can't read it, which startup are they referring to in the headline?

They're referring to Crusoe (crusoe.ai)

A company that will surely still exist in 4 years time.

Lots of back door deals. Just expect more government things put in TX just like the Army built that place in Austin, when we have plenty of dead bases that could be reused

:/

Probably for the same reason that Silcon Valley has been moving there slowly and quietly for a while now.

Because rich people inevitably don't like taxes? And maybe forest fires?

because california is not a very permissive landscape and believes there should be a community-involved process with veto for essentially every large private action

This was a very long winded way to spell money

i’m curious, do you feel that you are contributing to the discussion?

Do you feel your prior comment was sincere and fully captured the reasons for which some firms and individuals have transitioned from California to Texas?

Natural gas to power the turbines while the nuclear plant are built, I guess. Also is Texas more open to large-scale development than elsewhere?

Any downsides?

Existing underinvestment in infrastructure and its maintenance, extreme weather, water resource limitations, some human rights issues.