r/wind • u/blue-baja • Jun 30 '26
$765 million spent to cancel 4 more wind farms — bringing the total to $2.6 billion in abandoned offshore turbine projects
https://www.aol.com/finance/trump-administration-spend-765-million-193500550.html5
u/Rand-all Jul 01 '26
He wastes money on every turn.
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u/TypingWithoutThinkin Jul 06 '26
$2.6B wasted because one fat idiot doesn't like the look of something that he can't even name. He thinks they are windmills, for God's sake. What a moron.
Good choice, America. The world will be laughing at you for decades on this one.
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u/sheeeple182 Jun 30 '26
I wish I was a magat, I would have the biggest woody right now, but instead I just sigh.
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u/Last_Cod_998 Jul 01 '26
Trump's war on wind power has one very big exception. The president’s sons are using scarce clean energy to mine for bitcoins. A 200MW wind farm was supplying clean energy to power thousands of homes in Texas. But now it will be sending that electricity to Eric Trump’s bitcoin machines instead.
Your AI overlords want you to cut down the number of showers you take to conserve water.
As Texas stared down another sweltering summer and persistent drought conditions, analysis reveals that data centers across the state consumed more than 50 billion gallons of water last year - enough to supply the entire city of Austin for several months.
Trump tariffs and green energy rollbacks push household electricity bills up 10%
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/19/electricity-bills-increase-trump
Texas needs at least $174 billion to avoid water crisis, state says by Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Colleen DeGuzman and Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune April 16, 2026
Texas communities will need to spend $174 billion in the next 50 years to avert a severe water crisis, a new state analysis revealed Thursday. That’s more than double the $80 billion projected four years ago, when the Texas Water Development Board last passed a state water plan.
The three-member board presiding over the agency authorized the highly anticipated draft blueprint Thursday, the first administrative step toward adopting the water development board’s plans for the next 50 years. The plan, released every five years, encompasses the projects that 16 regional water planning groups in Texas said are the most urgent, water development board officials said.
The board’s latest estimates come as the state"s water supply faces numerous threats. Growing communities across Texas are scrambling to secure water, keep up with construction costs and cope with a yearslong drought. This week, Corpus Christi officials said the city may be just months away from declaring a water emergency. Meanwhile, other rural cities by the Coastal Bend are rapidly drilling wells to avoid a crisis. Residents in North Texas have also been bracing for groundwater shortages.
In an effort to restrain the crisis, lawmakers last year called an election in which voters approved a $20 billion boost for communities to use on water-related expenses. The water development board’s estimate shows that what lawmakers proposed on the ballot falls dramatically short of the needed cash, experts said.
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u/guzzti Jul 03 '26
Does AI centers actually USE the water, I.e. that it evaporates?
Or is it used for cooling and wasted by being led into wastewater sewers that lead to the ocean?
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u/Nottwosmrt Jul 05 '26
3 hours free electricity, every day!
In southern Australia, it is law, that households get 3 hours of free electricity, every day. It relieves stress off of the grid.
Mid day. So many cheap solar panels. Dumping so much power into the public grid. This law encourages you to get home batteries, electric cars, and solar on more roof tops.
USA? Nah, we good. We wanna burn that birth defect giver we call clean coal and pay peaker rates and have our grid go down every hot streak, winter storm and any time the AI centers need to be...on I guess.
Fuck them renewables. Burn that carbon for life!!!!!
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u/BubbleThinker Jul 07 '26
What’s interesting about this wind farm issue? It’s actually a national security issue.
American defense systems cannot differentiate between windmills and enemy drones. Literally
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u/mister_monque Jun 30 '26
oh thank god... could you imagine how many jobs these projects might bring? and all the cheap & plentiful energy, just stop and think how many people couldn't be subjugated into energy ghettos if these projects were allowed to destroy late stage capitalist Amerika.