Texas's interconnection queue for ai data centers just hit 474 gigawatts — up from 48 in 2023,…
texas's interconnection queue for ai data centers just hit 474 gigawatts — up from 48 in 2023, against a total us fleet running at 60-70. the grid application list is now seven times the whole country's demand.
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The Texas Governor's office, on 3 August 2026, says ERCOT is considering approximately over 474 gigawatts of requests to connect, more than five times the record peak electricity demand for ERCOT, with about 90 percent of the new power requests being data centers, and directs an audit of data centers advancing through ERCOT's process. Utility Dive, 5 August 2026, reports about 474 GW and that ERCOT delayed its Batch Zero study.
474 GW is requests to connect, not capacity or load, and about 90% are data centers, so not all are AI data centers. The Governor's comparison is Texas's record peak, about five times. The 48 GW in 2023, a US fleet of 60 to 70, and seven times the whole country's demand were not found in the text read, and comparing a Texas queue to national numbers is unverified as stated. ERCOT's own report was not inspected.
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