ERCOT is tracking 474 GW of large-load interconnection requests, about 90 percent of them data centres

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ERCOT is tracking 474 GW of large-load interconnection requests, about 90 percent of them data centres

· L1 Power and land · 474 GW · Confirmed

Texas has requests to connect 474 gigawatts of very large electricity users, and nine in ten of them are data centres. For scale, the whole Texas grid has never had to serve more than about 86 gigawatts at once. Almost none of this will be built, but the queue is what the grid has to plan around.

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