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Today is definitely sunny and windy.

With power prices negative, I guess those big Bitcoin mines out in West TX are quite profitable burning off our excess power...

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> West TX

FYI, there actually is a city called West, so it would usually appear as "West, TX" or West TX". It's actually between Dallas and Austin though and not in the west.

I assume you're just correcting capitalization, but for clarity's sake, the aforementioned Bitcoin mines are in west TX, the region with oil derricks, wind turbines, and tumbleweeds, and not West, TX, the town with the Little Czech Stop and delicious kolaches.

I didn’t really mean it as corrective. I just thought it was interesting how subtle differences can completely change, in this case, a location.

El Paso aside, the only place in West Texas I can think of that may have a datacenter is Sul Ross University in Alpine but i doubt it. ..there's probably not even one in El Paso.

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