Facing 474 GW of interconnection requests, Texas hits pause on data centers

It's more that Texas is barely able to operate their grid at 100% of today's capacity demands without noteworthy outages and humiliating 100x/kwH surge pricing events, prior to datacenters requesting another 500% of the capacity they're unable to deliver competently today. And it's not like they can just build five more racks in a datacenter to solve that! One wonders if Texas will pass a bill like Oregon that charges datacenters for the capital infrastructure build costs (new generation plants, new transmission lines, etc.) of their demand — corporate graft as a state ethos is all well and good until you're evaluating Datacenters Per Nuclear Power Plant in serious, rather than comedic, terms.