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jnakano89 7 hours ago [-]
About half of America’s off-grid energy projects are in Texas. The OpenAI/Oracle data center in Shackelford County is running on its own gas plant. That’s the real Texas advantage.
It’s not just taxes or cheap power. It’s that you can put the power plant and the inference cluster in the same operating loop to avoid waiting years in an interconnection queue.
> In the early 2020s Texas was luring in remote workers
And not a single one of the people I know that moved there want to still live there. ymmv I guess
kyouens 6 hours ago [-]
Please let the zillions of people still fogging into my hometown (an Austin suburb) know!
anon291 6 hours ago [-]
people move to Texas thinking it has low taxes. It doesn't. Washington state has a much lower tax burden.
For a normal earner, California has a lower tax burden than Texas. It is surprisingly insanely high tax.
Of course California also has a much larger safety net than Texas. So for most working people it's a no brainer as to which state is better
Synthetic7346 5 hours ago [-]
As someone who lives in California and pays state taxes, how would Texas have a higher tax burden if it doesn't charge state tax?
piperswe 4 hours ago [-]
Texas charges quite high property taxes compared to many other states
SOLAR_FIELDS 4 hours ago [-]
True, but in my experience grandparent is a bit full of it. Yes property taxes are higher, but what op leaves out is that the values of homes are like for like 2-3x more expensive in California. So in the end I would probably pay around the same tax for a like for like home in California as Texas, simply because of the value of the home. Then we must consider the state income tax of California, which is a nonzero differential to that of Texas’ state income tax
Rebelgecko 3 hours ago [-]
My understanding is that property taxes in Texas can also grow a LOT year over year if your town gets more popular, which isn't the case in California
ProllyInfamous 3 hours ago [-]
IIRC only New Jersey and/or Connecticutt have higher property tax rates. I know that Tennessee's are about a quarter of Texas'.
4 hours ago [-]
pyuser583 5 hours ago [-]
Then why are so many people moving to Texas?
bmitc 4 hours ago [-]
What is high tax in Texas, much less insanely high? There is no income tax. Property taxes are okay-ish. It has a standard sales tax.
> Of course California also has a much larger safety net than Texas.
California alone accounts for a third of the homeless population in the U.S.
Rover222 6 hours ago [-]
California is an incredible example of how to drop the ball when running a powerful state. Texas is of course on the other end of the spectrum in terms of regulation and being business-friendly. Something more in the middle of the two is obviously ideal.
laughing_man 2 hours ago [-]
California's problems are going to magnify as time goes on. The state budget has always been a fiction they could paper over because the state had high growth. As growth slows it becomes harder and harder to provide services using debt.
asdff 2 hours ago [-]
It is astounding how many of CA's problems stem from across the board downzoning post 1960s.
It’s not just taxes or cheap power. It’s that you can put the power plant and the inference cluster in the same operating loop to avoid waiting years in an interconnection queue.
And not a single one of the people I know that moved there want to still live there. ymmv I guess
For a normal earner, California has a lower tax burden than Texas. It is surprisingly insanely high tax.
Of course California also has a much larger safety net than Texas. So for most working people it's a no brainer as to which state is better
> Of course California also has a much larger safety net than Texas.
California alone accounts for a third of the homeless population in the U.S.