I was hoping to find out whether this is a viable business model for new startups, but they only ruled that it took too long for Musk to bring the lawsuit.

Before emissions controls, they'd try to disperse soot and ash over wide area to minimize the impact to individuals, but natural gas burns a lot cleaner than coal, and doesn't really produce soot or ash, so it's not really a concern.

The only thing that article says about it is that the local government did a study and concluded that it wasn't an environmental hazard.

Think about it this way: why would a gas turbine mounted on a trailer emit more pollution than a fixed facility? It's burning the same fuel, with the same emissions controls.

Ok, but we should still be able to add that to the grid. In reality, it is much easier and cheaper to build a 1GW power plant than it is to build a 1GW datacenter.

2GW is basically nothing. The entire grid is something like 1,200GW so you'd need to add a fraction of a percent to cover a very large data center. The fact that people claim this is beyond our capability is preposterous.

It uses exactly the amount of power I think it does, because I can read the specs and they say how much power these things use, which is not very much.

See, this is the kind of retarded bullshit you idiots say, and then you expect me to take you seriously.

Mobile generators don't produce any more pollution than regular power plants. It is common for businesses to install mobile generators so that they can operate them right away (I believe the law allows them to operate for 1 year) before they get permanent air permits for them. By the way, Xai does have stationary permits for them now, so even that deeply flawed information is out of date.

It is hilarious to see morons like you vacillate between claiming these companies are irresponsible for using the grid without paying for new generation, and complaining when they do add the grid capacity to cover their use. It couldn't be more obvious that it has triggered a knee-jerk anti-development instinct in your lizard brain and that you have not capacity whatsoever to consider these developments rationally.

All this anti-datacenter nonsense is entirely unfounded in reality, so you are just another one of the stupid voters I am talking about.

It sounds like a good way to tank the economy forever, but ok.

Actually, the concerns are not real either. These don't really use all that much power, and they don't use any water or pollute the environment at all to speak of. Adding capacity to the grid to power these data centers should be entirely trivial. It's not because of other dumb rules that other dumb voters have supported in the past. Any attempt to solve the problem by limiting new development is completely nonsensical.

If this passes it calls the whole concept of democracy into question.

I was employed at IBM from 1990 to 1991. One thing IBM did was provision their PCs with huge amounts of RAM for the times. I'd use a RAM drive to run things. Their standard PC was a 16 MHz 80386 with 16M of RAM. Yes, the 80486 had just been released, but even IBM struggled to keep up. I had an 80286 clone PC with 1M of RAM, fairly standard for the mid 1980s. They had some old 80286 PCs (genuine IBM brand PCs of course) they'd supplied with 12M, which they kept in use as network bridges. One big difference between the clone and the genuine IBM was that the clone could skip the memory test. Another was that the clones tended to run a few MHz faster, 12 MHz for mine, 6, 8, or 10 MHz for these genuine IBM beasts. Upon powering up, it took that genuine IBM 80286 PC's BIOS 10 minutes to run its memory test, 64K at a time in real mode, then again in protected mode, and you couldn't skip it. To this day, those hold the record for the longest boot times I have ever seen in a PC. Had hard drives that had to be manually parked, and one day the idiot among my coworkers moved all the machines around for no good reason (he wanted all the servers physically near him because he thought that gave him more control and power), but forgot to park the hard drives of those 286s, thus ruining them.

In 1993 I used these VAX workstations that took 20 minutes to boot. They were intended to stay on 24/7. The day that thunderstorms knocked out the power for an hour, twice, 30 minutes apart, I didn't get much done.

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"

Since billions of people believe in him, that wasn't a very good trick.

This is hardly the first time someone has noticed that letting people park in high-demand areas for free is problematic. Waymo can easily pay for a few minutes of parking here and there. The real problem is all the normal cars that remain parked on the street all day long.

The smart ones do . . .