Original post for the new Houston plant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143152

Thread on that post discussing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144148

What about a making it prerequisite? Demonstrate you have built the nuclear/solar/whatever capacity to cover your own energy before you're allowed to build a datacenter?

Solar doesn't work well with 24/7 demand requirements, provisioning enough storage to fully even out intermittency drastically raises costs (most battery storage systems are for only 2-4 hours).

Nuclear has extremely onerous regulatory requirements.

I think this is the wrong way to go.

Let them buy energy, but why aren’t utilities’ power rates more strictly regulated?

Residential rates should be locked in with inflation, allow business rates to increase.

But you've just killed domestic manufacturing and any retail balancing on fine margins.

The only way to remove additional grid demand (and therefore cost) is to simultaneously flood the supply. The DCs should absolutely pay for that.

That’s fine with me, the government can just mandate utility capacity build-out.

These are monopoly businesses where the government has full control over the policy of their operation.

I would generally make the argument that data centers aren’t any different than manufacturing or retail businesses. Their demand should be considered equal in terms of priority - the government shouldn’t be artificially choosing industry preferences unless it has very good reason.

Either you’re a business and you pay the business price or you’re an individual and you pay the individual price.

> nuclear

See you in 15 years I guess.

Many site are already building their own capacity, but doing it (unfortunately) with gas turbines.

"Florida Man Arrested for Hanging on Traffic Light and Sh*tting on Cars Passing Underneath"?? (In picture library)

It seems the whole story is a hoax and his faced is photoshopped in but definitely interesting choice of things to put on your portfolio.

On the Komet too which makes me wonder if book quote use standards or their stringency were different back then/in other countries.

First off thank you for designing this. Both iOS and Android have been focused on streamlining their user experience in the past few years but unfortunately it seems that text editing is just as annoying as before.

In theory how would a "robust implementation" be designed to avoid two layers?