34 points by root-parent 4 hours ago | 12 comments
- Not internalizing the costs of increased electricity consumption was an own goal.
- https://www.anthropic.com/news/covering-electricity-price-in... I think that they tried to?
- Popular opinion is at a fever pitch, but many municipalities have put in moratoriums that expire a few days or weeks after the election.
This isn't going anywhere.
- Lawl, that's rich -- the buildout happened under his watch.
- He cozied up to them until public opinion turned against data centers
- There’s literally a commercial featuring Abbot defending data center buildouts and saying how good they are for communities running right now. Like today.
- Big deal hearing it from a Texas GOP governor who's usually in lock step with the Trump administration. Texans must really hate these things across the political spectrum.
- The polling must have shown a vulnerability - Democrats in Texas (and a few MAGA like Sid Miller) were hammering GOP on this issue until Abbott finally changed his tune. Texas voters hate it more than pedophiles cause Ken Paxton mismanaged a bunch of those cases resulting in lenient plea deals that didn’t make a dent in Paxton support earlier this year, and he won the GOP statewide primary. He probably will win the general election but here’s hoping against it.
- > Texas voters hate it more than pedophiles
I'm not sure if this is a very strong statement, most of them voted for Trump after all.
- Abbott will suddenly be in favor of deregulating all data center construction by December. He has a track record on this.
- Greg Abbott has a long tradition of about-facing ahead of reelection. Ignore anything that comes out of his mouth until after November.
- You can tell more about him by keeping an eye on what goes into his wallet. He's gotten millions in donations/bribes from companies who want to profit from data centers. He's not letting them down.