| ▲ | lokar 3 days ago |
| For any big facility there will be pretty strict EPA limits on how long you can run the generators each year. |
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| ▲ | dylan604 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| The EPA? Are they still a thing? I doubt anyone is concerned about the EPA under current management. |
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| ▲ | bilbo0s 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Which is great. Until there's new management. You can't run a business by seesaw. Best to just count on that rule being enforced and place the necessary battery backups and wind or solar in place to backstop the diesel. Then make any users who need to use those data centers eat that extra cost. There's no problem with us-east costing less than us-west, and us-texas costing most of all. That's how markets work. | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 2 days ago | parent [-] | | But the seesaw is what the future is going to look like. If some bit of mass voting breaks out for the next election and moves to the other party, there will be a swing back the other direction. Then the following election the masses will get upset about something and swing it back. The country is too polarized to expect anything other than seesaw policies. Unless we go full revolution and just deny the other party from ever taking charge. |
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| ▲ | xxpor 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The state regulators can also get you. | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The state regulators of Texas? Unless you're trying to manage your own health, the state is not concerned about you. If you're a gas/power company, they only want to know what regulations you want removed/enacted. They definitely aren't "getting you" for being part of bigEnergy | | |
| ▲ | xxpor 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Texas, I could agree with. I'm just saying that Virginia has fined DC operators specifically for running their generators too much. |
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| ▲ | Bender 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Indeed. I have faith that Texas will find a way around such rules especially if they are being regulated into running them. A Texas company I worked for was highly proficient in maximum shrugs. |
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| ▲ | more_corn 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The EPA doesn’t really have the resources to enforce that. And certainly won’t have that capability under the trump administration. |
