The Legislature has tried to clamp down on renewable energy resources in the past, but many lawmakers are recognizing the ...

industrial production facilities and cryptocurrency mining. READ MORE: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick criticizes crypto-miners, AI data centers for potential strain on Texas power grid What they're saying ...

A new research report by the Digital Assets Research Institute (DARI) revealed how Bitcoin mining has impacted the Texas ... grids to incorporate more renewable energy sources like wind and solar ...

Four companies have pulled their natural gas power plant projects from consideration from the $5 billion Texas Energy Fund ...

and Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), asked ERCOT about the state's cryptocurrency boom and power consumption last fall. "Given the impacts of crypto-mining on the climate, the grid, and to ratepayers ...

Electric companies are dropping out of taxpayer-funded Texas Energy Fund, more will follow if GOP power bills pass.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state’s main grid operator, estimates that power demand will nearly double by 2030, driven by an influx of large users such as crypto mining ...

(Bloomberg) — Texas began requiring new large-scale cryptocurrency miners to apply for permission to connect to the state's power grid in anticipation of a flood of requests that are expected to ...

Texas lawmakers are trying to figure out how the state's already-strained power grid can keep up with the data centers that ...

Developers of renewable generation would be required to match it with new gas-fired generation, which could be impossible.

The bill, which would improve grid reliability among other things, readies the state to support more data centers and AI ...

Conversations about Texas' grid have heightened in recent years since the deadly winter storm of February 2021, when Texas' power grid — which is managed by the Electric Reliability Council of ...