Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

Tue Jun 27 00:35:56 UTC 2023

On 6/24/23 5:28 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
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>> On Jun 23, 2023, at 18:04, Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
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>>> On 6/23/23 4:01 PM, Delong.com via NANOG wrote:
>>> The electric grid complaints are about the demand on the grid making the entire region less stable and proposed construction of new high-voltage tower corridors for data centers.
>>> Yeah, I can kind of understand those, but as long as the grid is properly planned, it really shouldn’t have a destabilizing effect. In fact, many datacenter in California do CoGen and end up providing additional grid stability.
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>> Uh, ::cough:: PGE ::cough::
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>> I so wanted to schadenfreude so bad with Texas and their shitty grid, but then remembered where I live.
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>> Mike
> What’s not to love about a power company that literally qualifies as a recidivist felon?
>
> It is my sincere hope to finish my mortgage and then start putting money towards electrical independence. (Wind, more solar, batteries, and disconnecting Persistent Graft and Extortion).
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I'm waiting on a software upgrade for my inverter to hook up a generator 
to refill the battery when it gets too low. Not off the grid, but not at 
the mercy of PGE's fuckery.

How many datacenters are in Norcal? I imagine that it's a lot, but PGE's 
rates are like 2x the rest of the country. At least for residential. I 
always got a kick of Google putting a datacenter in the Dalles in Oregon 
-- basically mainlining the Columbia river.

Mike