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Texas Just Froze Every New Data Center on Its Grid — and the Waiting List Is Five Times the Whole State's Power Record
On August 3rd, Governor Greg Abbott ordered Texas regulators to audit every data center in ERCOT's grid interconnection queue and barred any project from advancing until that audit is complete. The queue holds more than 1,800 projects asking for over 474 gigawatts — more than five times the Texas grid's all-time peak demand. Roughly 90% of those requests are data centers.
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