The “Texas Miracle” loses some of its magic as Oracle announces it’s moving its new HQ out of Austin and Tesla lays off nearly 2,700 workers.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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      5 months ago

      Right? I always wondered why tech moved to Texas it has all the things data centers would hate:

      • unstable electricity
      • high heat
      • high property taxes

      If anything, I’d think they’d move to the great lakes.

      • Close to the Chicago IXP
      • Water for energy
      • Cool weather
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        5 months ago

        Keep them out of our post industrial hellhole!

        But for real idk if these people can handle snow, so give it a few years before they move here

        • Baahb@feddit.nl
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          5 months ago

          They in fact cannot. Neither California nor Texas is prepared for freezing in any sense of the word.