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Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are 5 times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium

www.texastribune.org

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Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are 5 times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium

www.texastribune.org

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Texas@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

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New Texas data center projects frozen until state audits them

www.texastribune.org

On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/technology/p/1309636/texas-slams-on-the-brakes-for-1800-data-centers-power-grid-requirements-are-5-times-high

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1309635/texas-slams-on-the-brakes-for-1800-data-centers-power-grid-requirements-are-5-times-high

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the puc should then be upgrading our grid if they want those things so bad

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