I know this sub thread kicked off with snark about regional grids. That said, TXSE will be located in Dallas, a T5 datacenter city.

Why can't it be MORE reliable than XNYS/XNAS?

Tho energy is also a lot cheaper in Texas than NY. If you have to have ample back up regardless, total cost of maintaining consistent power can be lower even when grid quality is lower

(ofc, I'm looking at retail rates, who knows what specific numbers can be cut in contract)

Is this true though? Texas has had some well-publicized failures (well, really one major one), but as best as I can tell they are more or less middle of the pack on grid reliability[1].

I mean, you'll need a backup generator anywhere, but the report I found (admittedly with just a bit of googling) makes it seem like Texas is a better potential location than quite a few states (including California).

[1] - https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2021...

Yeah, Oncor isn’t great. They do just enough to keep the lights on for regular customers. But I’m pretty sure large data centers negotiate a higher level of service and purchase power at discounted rates. FB, for example, has a massive data center in the Alliance corridor — check out the link. Those trailer-sized units you see along the outside of the building are enormous diesel or natural gas generators — more than a hundred of them, each about the size of a locomotive. They even have their own electrical substation. The scale and redundancy of that place are unbelievable.

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9832754,-97.2573651,467m/dat...

So I’d imagine they could keep everything running for as long as necessary. I remember during the big winter outage a few years ago, they didn’t have any issues at all.

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