On a suspicion, I had a quick look, and of course there’s also tax incentives, apparently.
Love this quote “Texas had long been a preferred location for large data centers given its central location, economic climate, reliable electric grid, historically low occurrences of natural disasters, educated workforce and pro-business environment.” :|
…reliable electric grid, historically low occurrences of natural disasters, educated workforce…
Lol. More like, "…pro-business environment with developing-nation levels of regulation while still having a minimally sufficient power grid, the kind of natural disasters that don’t affect data centers enough to offset cost savings and a desperately exploitable and cheap workforce.
I’m aware Texas has some top tier educational institutions, but for whatever reason, they’re not accessible to their workforce. Texas is about #30 for education in the US.
Lack of regulations of all kinds
On a suspicion, I had a quick look, and of course there’s also tax incentives, apparently.
Love this quote “Texas had long been a preferred location for large data centers given its central location, economic climate, reliable electric grid, historically low occurrences of natural disasters, educated workforce and pro-business environment.” :|
Lol. More like, "…pro-business environment with developing-nation levels of regulation while still having a minimally sufficient power grid, the kind of natural disasters that don’t affect data centers enough to offset cost savings and a desperately exploitable and cheap workforce.
I’m aware Texas has some top tier educational institutions, but for whatever reason, they’re not accessible to their workforce. Texas is about #30 for education in the US.
Found the reason