Our GRID Is Dying - Just When We Need to Double It Because of AI

What Would Jesus Do?

All-American

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Old transformers, slow production, rising electricity demand....

 

MTTiger19

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Maybe if we elect a bunch of Democrats they’ll save us.

 

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Rifler

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Jan 26, 2011

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US electrical grid is a joke,.. Have long felt that this needs to be the next big federal project,... Something akin to the Eisenhower interstate highway expansion meets Kennedy's race to the moon.

 

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FLaw47

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Dec 23, 2010

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There's a permitting bill that's floating around right now that could be very good for this. Just listened to a podcast on it.

 

Rastafarian

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MTTiger19 said:

Maybe if we elect a bunch of Democrats they’ll save us.

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Works great in Texas.

 

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MTTiger19

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Sep 10, 2008

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Rastafarian said:

Works great in Texas.

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Yea it does!
Texas ranks among the top 1–2 states (often second to Virginia in data center operational count, sometimes first in total facilities or growth/pipeline).

 

Scrubby

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Jul 2, 2025

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Shame that democrats have such a foolish outlook on energy policy and resist coal/nuclear power in favor of much dumber and less efficient options like wind.

 

Rastafarian

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MTTiger19 said:

Yea it does!
Texas ranks among the top 1–2 states (often second to Virginia in data center operational count, sometimes first in total facilities or growth/pipeline).

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Yup, because of access to Nat gas and behind the meter electricity. Texas grid reliability is terrible. Extreme weather events (when you most need reliability), are meaningfully higher in Texas than anywhere else.

State	Major weather outages 2000–23	Avg./year
Texas	210	8.8
Ohio	88	3.7
Virginia	83	3.5
Georgia	83	3.5
Pennsylvania	82	3.4

And this doesn’t include hurricane beryl in 2024, which left millions without power.

 

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SB_SB

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Scrubby said:

Shame that democrats have such a foolish outlook on energy policy and resist coal/nuclear power in favor of much dumber and less efficient options like wind.

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I thought your guy was bringing back coal. Where's he at with that? There's plenty of Red states, why aren't all of them heavy coal users?

 

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Scrubby

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SB_SB said:

I thought your guy was bringing back coal. Where's he at with that? There's plenty of Red states, why aren't all of them heavy coal users?

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Checkmate I guess?

 

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SB_SB

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Scrubby said:

Checkmate I guess?

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You'll believe anything coming out of his mouth. He's a complete idiot and yet there's people like you who still believe his BS. Have you always been fool?

 

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