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
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
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/texas-data-center-project-audit-greg-abbott/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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the puc should then be upgrading our grid if they want those things so bad