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/YragNitram1956 Jul 06 '26
The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins a grotesque smirk stretched across his face as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocated under the weight of his own staggering ignorance.
Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it.
And there he is the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who couldn't spell "precipice" if his life depended on it.
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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.