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Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait a16z.com

jqpabc123an hour ago

Rhetoric meets reality.

Texas rolled out the red carpet to corporate interests --- and then discovered that their electrical grid operation is totally inadequate to deal with the impact.

This is just one isolated example of a much larger issue related to the "AI race".

AI is power intensive and the "winner" of the "AI race" is likely be whoever can produce lower cost power and lots of it.

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