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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago

Data center boom strains Texas homebuilders’ need for electricians

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Data center boom strains Texas homebuilders’ need for electricians

www.krgv.com

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago
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Texas homebuilders are facing significant project delays as a surge in massive AI data center construction poaches skilled electricians from the residential sector with higher wages and benefits.
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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    Can’t wait for this AI shit to collapse.

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    Too bad Texas is a conservative shithole. Otherwise electricians might be tempted to move there.

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    Going to be hilarious when their electrical grid inevitably shuts down

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      And it always happens at the worst time too, usually at the peak of a heatwave or a cold snap.

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        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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          dint he fled to california as of recently too.

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    Using residential electricians for industrial work is certainly a choice. They are not necessarily interchangeable.

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    with a barely function electric grid, what could go wrong by adding datcenters to the state.

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    I’m gonna laugh when Texas is entire power grid collapses because it hasn’t been updated since the 1950s.

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      and refuses to connect to the rest of the states, because then they cant GOUGE customers for money.

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        That’s the main feature.

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