On 6/24/23 5:28 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
On Jun 23, 2023, at 18:04, Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote:
On 6/23/23 4:01 PM, Delong.com via NANOG wrote:
The electric grid complaints are about the demand on the grid making the entire
region less stable and proposed construction of new high-voltage tower
corridors for data centers.
Yeah, I can kind of understand those, but as long as the grid is properly
planned, it really shouldn’t have a destabilizing effect. In fact, many
datacenter in California do CoGen and end up providing additional grid
stability.
Uh, ::cough:: PGE ::cough::
I so wanted to schadenfreude so bad with Texas and their shitty grid, but then
remembered where I live.
Mike
What’s not to love about a power company that literally qualifies as a
recidivist felon?
It is my sincere hope to finish my mortgage and then start putting money
towards electrical independence. (Wind, more solar, batteries, and
disconnecting Persistent Graft and Extortion).
I'm waiting on a software upgrade for my inverter to hook up a generator
to refill the battery when it gets too low. Not off the grid, but not at
the mercy of PGE's fuckery.
How many datacenters are in Norcal? I imagine that it's a lot, but PGE's
rates are like 2x the rest of the country. At least for residential. I
always got a kick of Google putting a datacenter in the Dalles in Oregon
-- basically mainlining the Columbia river.
Mike
