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▶ 38:14 Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros To essentially build these massive campuses in, in, in West Texas. 5 times in the scene

▶ 15:11 George Hershman Because it's harder to build in the northeast than it's hard, than in west Texas.

▶ 11:38 Jake Elder Um, but moving forward, I think there's a school of thought that says that AI inference in particular might move to the edge, and I think the, you know, first principles argument that folks tend to make is that latency is going to matter…
▶ 26:14 Jake Elder Generally sensitive to where they're being cited for not all projects, but for most projects, and, um, if there were lots of off-grid opportunities in, in Virginia, for example, I think we'd see them being pursued more quickly than we're… 2 times in the scene
▶ 38:50 Jake Elder Um, the, if you've got latency concerns building in West Texas, then you're certainly gonna have latency concerns building, you know, a few miles north of the, above the, the South Pole, um, and so I do still think in that world, right,…

▶ 10:38 Rafi Garabedian If you look in West Texas, um, and you were to sign a, uh, solar and wind kind of affirmed green power purchase agreement in, in Texas and Urquhart territory three years ago, you might've paid
▶ 41:50 Rafi Garabedian Well, Shale, we'll, we're, we're building our first one in West Texas today, and it's going extremely well, so I'm looking forward to showing that off to you when it's up and running.

▶ 32:44 Shayle Kann You see some of this happening in, like, West Texas, because there's space. 2 times in the scene

▶ 35:31 Sheldon Kimber Maybe it's karma, too, Shell, uh, because, you know, we were in that, like, heavy fistfight with a lot of people in the industry about whether or not hydrogen should be co-located and time-matched, and, you know, and a lot of people wanted…

▶ 3:56 Chase Lockmiller So markets like West Texas that have been, you know, heavily developed with wind and solar
▶ 7:42 Chase Lockmiller If that load can catalyze net new greenfield generation that's, that's clean, you know, whether it's building data centers in areas like West Texas that have abundant wind and solar, and you can deploy large, you know, battery clusters as,…
▶ 11:17 Chase Lockmiller That's why, you know, we're building data centers in West Texas.

▶ 43:11 Shayle Kann But like, my quintessential example is just like, West Texas to East Texas.

▶ 31:10 Shayle Kann In air, there's areas of Texas where if you're, you know, in West Texas, if you're building a new wind farm, there's going to be significant periods of, uh, of zero to negative pricing that you will be able to achieve. 2 times in the scene
▶ 38:04 Shayle Kann One would be if a bunch of wind projects in West Texas were getting mothballed because the economics become so bad and there was not a repowering opportunity.

▶ 29:54 Rob Gramlich Uh, you know, political alignment between, uh, very conservative West Texas ranchers, uh, and the environmental community.

▶ 15:23 Dr. Michael Webber We improve the productivity, the throughput, the efficiency, and the ability to move energy from where you produce it, maybe in West Texas, to where you need it, say, France and Germany, if they're trying to get off Russian gas, for…

▶ 41:54 Shayle Kann With that said, you do have a lot of new like Bitcoin mines going up or just crypto mines going up in places like West Texas where there's really cheap wind.

▶ 11:41 Shayle Kann Where, like, East Texas and West Texas have, uh, exactly opposite

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