alt Hacker NewsIf Virginia or Louisiana should profit by this then so be it. Californian land-use laws will have a net effect of -8 house seats against Texas. That is good. It should happen. If Texans will be poorer so Virginians will be richer, that is also good. May the American federal system reign forever. Allowing for states as experiments and letting them suffer their consequences is good. It is a machine for us to iterate on our present and future prosperity.
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When experiments fail the constituents pay the price, not the experimenters.
This letter says nothing about Louisiana or Virginia, what exactly are you talking about?
I don't think these data centres bring that much money locally.
Beyond the construction they employ very little people and bring very little taxes at a gargantuan cost in resources.
Virginia has more power infrastructure in place but said infrastructure is already seeing significant DC build out; I know little about power distribution in Louisiana but would be surprised if there was extensive spare capacity in the transmission lines and generation facilities. I'm surprised that the rust belt hasn't seen more uptake since they had all that manufacturing capacity but the backing power generation/distribution may have atrophied in the intervening years.
How is Louisiana going to profit by it besides selling hot plates to the construction workers?
This is delicious comedy.
The problem is that the costs of Texas blowing natural gas carbon into the air are largely paid by wildfires in California, so we are going to need another mechanism to make sure that is felt in Texas as well.
> It is a machine for us to iterate on our present and future prosperity.
The former middle class has entered the chat.
Polling shows a fairly bipartisan opposition to data centers, so it could encourage more states to join in with pauses of their own.