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Million-Square-Foot Data Center Being Built In Dallas
1sockchuck writes: RagingWire has begun building a 1 million square foot data center campus in the Telecom Corridor north of Dallas. Data centers have been growing in scale for years, but this project reflects the extent to which massive amounts of computing power are being concentrated in regional hubs. This super-sizing of data center campuses allows cloud platforms (and the data center providers that serve them) to rapidly add server capacity and electric power.
is EAST of Dallas not north...
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quote: The majority of the state's residents live within the region regulated by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, an "island" that generates and supplies all its own electricity—unlike, say, New York City or Detroit, whose residents found out the hard way that lots of their power comes from Canada. link: http://www.slate.com/articles/...
it takes our own grid to run all the air conditioning units in the summer... ;)
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Yeah, but people who blow up trucks full of fertilizer are trying to kill people where they feel safe or to make a statement. Blowing up data centers doesn't make real news. All you've done is killed at best a dozen people and made everyone there activate their DR plan.
That's why they shoot up elementary schools and kill people on the news even though they could have used that to knock out the electrical grid or something. The news thrives on sentimentality and human interest pieces. And the crazies crave news coverage.
"This super-sizing of data center campuses allows cloud platforms (and the data center providers that serve them) to rapidly add server capacity and electric power."
It's also all your eggs in one basket too, don't they watch Mr Robot?
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
That's gonna be one hell of an electric bill. ;)
I drive Facebook's new place every day and it's no where near Dallas...
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Is that even bigger than one square kilometre? I have no idea due to your curious continued use of medievil measurements.
... for the "Chinese," uh ... please excuse ... "Russians" to hack and stuff.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Naw, it's in preparation if Texas needs to split from the Union. Gotta be self-sufficient and all that. :)
Am I joking? :)
Maybe. Maybe not. ...it's bugging you, isn't it?
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Life is not for the lazy.
You need to check your history books. Texas was desperate to join the Union, due to the huge debt from their wars. And there is no clause to leave the Union, but there is a clause (completely historical trivia at this point) to allow the state to be split into 5 states. That is it. Texans are taught by other Texans way too many lies about their state.
Not true. Geographically, Spain ruled the area that comprises of modern day Texas from 1519 to 1821. In 1821, a portion of that area - that also included modern day Texas - one it's independence and became Mexico. In 1832, the Mexican president Santa Anna attempted to enforce martial law in what is geographically Texas today. In 1836, the final battle between Santa Ann and Sam Houston took place along Buffalo Bayou. It was at that moment the Republic of Texas was its own nation for nine years before joining the Union in 1845.
It's hard to imagine at first whom ruled what based on a set of written factual history stats alone, because, the borders are constantly being redrawn around inclusive geographic regions as a result of pivotal moments of treaties and conflict.
Life is not for the lazy.
Texas kicked Santa Anna's ass and won Independence as the Republic of Texas (it's own nation) for nine year PRIOR to joining the Union. So no, the US can't "give" Texas back to Mexico anymore than it could back to Spain. The only roll-back the US could do is give sovereignty back to Texas as a republic again. And, in fact there's a written condition that it can occur, but the land has to fracture into five states as part of the agreement.
There are three ways Texas could become a republic again in its entirety.
1. New articles drafted and passed between the US and the Union. They would still be allied neighbors like US and Canada.
2. Texas gives the US the finger, keeps the land, and enforces with it's own forces until conflict determines the victor. Being that the US loves to cut-and-run since the days of the Vietnam War, Texas would win by the citizens of the US folding on the conflict.
3. All the Mexican immigration changes the demographics enough that they decide to re-join Mexico and US just lets it happen. Quite possibly could happen to California in the future. But lets be honest, there's a reason they left Mexico to begin with, so if anything they become yet another Hispanic cultured republic.
Life is not for the lazy.