Land is weird. In another area I’ve got five sections (as in square miles) that had major gas lines on it, a huge electric substation, and gas plants. Windmills. Typical mediocre pasture. Tax value is $5k/acre. Pretty ugly, a cow every 50 acres kind of dirt ranch.
Well it’s big enough and has gigawatts of power available plus highway frontage such that the big processing centers are offering me $100million and bidding against each other, Apparently suitable sites are slim. They’ll put their own little campus and airport and whatever.
I bought it as a favor from a buddy 20 years ago and regretted it ever since.
We’re talking the middle of nowhere.
given the demands for power it looks like much of west texas is going to turn into either a wind farm or a solar farm in addition to all oil and gas wells.
there is brackish water under that whole area. The only desalination plant that taps into that is in El Paso.
but I’ll bet you could drop desal plants every couple miles all over west texas and turn the whole place green.
As it is, what the power companies want to do is site the chip factories right next to their power sources. But the new generation of chip factories require water and lots of it.
So there will be a demand for desalination plants.