| I did most of my IBEW apprenticeship in Texas datacenters (including our top agency's). This was between two and a decade ago, but I'm imagining that not much has changed in regards to "regulations." Texas will allow big players to do just about anything they want as long as the promises of "future jobs" and "additional tax revenue" are kept, even faintly. My tenure at one facility ended because of an OSHA investigation (which I do not wish to discuss any further than: just as HR works for their corporate owners, OSHA works for their corporate owners). Safety codes are written in blood. Faintly. They must often be re-written. ---- My hope is that the current datacenter over-buildout results in a similar disaster to the early-2000s destruction of sound-recording studios by home computers with ProTools (e.g). For my own futureproofing, I've purchased a 5070Ti for local LLM ponderings. ---- A brother is a statewide whore critter ("elected politician", at the Texas level), and my advice to fellow Texans is to do what I did: leave (as a 5th-gen native, I left over a decade ago; as did our other brother). ---- Different state, same shitty "leadership" : <https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/09/muskcorp-tries-to-bribe-...> We've all seen the documentary Idiocracy (2006) – also check out its predecessor They Live (1988): <https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/> |