PRODIGAL — THE PODCAST / Episode 14: Own Your Power: Texas's Grid Is Buckling Under Data Centers — Here's What Actually Works Right Now
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Own Your Power: Texas's Grid Is Buckling Under Data Centers — Here's What Actually Works Right Now
In January, the line of companies waiting to connect to the Texas power grid totaled 233 gigawatts. By August, it was 474 gigawatts — over 90 percent of it data centers, more than five times the entire state's peak demand. The governor just halted new hookups and ordered mandatory audits. Don and Daysha lay out the scale of it — ERCOT's own CEO warning of more blackout risk ahead, the same national pattern this show already documented with NERC and PJM — and who's actually…
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