Data centers, crypto miners and increasing electrification of factories across Texas creates nuance unlike anything grid operator the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has had to manage before.

Arthur Laffer, a staunch advocate of supply-side economics, says market forces, not government handouts, are the key to ...

The vast data centers needed to power artificial intelligence are in high demand, and Texas is at the center of a new boom to ...

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However, some energy experts said the numbers could be deceiving, pointing to changes in how the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, forecasts the numbers. This month, ERCOT released ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the unanimous passage of Senate Bill 6, Increasing Texas’ Electric ...

That’s according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the grid ... with the state vying to become the data-center hub of the country, if not the world.

The same is true in Waco and Hillsboro, where a planned data center is calling for 828 megawatts of power per year. That eclipses the amount the cities used together in 2023. It’s the same story in ...

The ERCOT Board of Directors convene for a meeting at the organization's headquarters in Austin on Dec. 3, 2024. (Noah Devereaux For The Texas Tribune, Noah Devereaux For The Texas Tribune ...

Texas’ main grid operator on Tuesday approved a $54 million plan to replace two aging natural gas-powered plants near San Antonio with the massive mobile generators that CenterPoint Energy came ...