Data center approvals in Texas halted until audits completed, says governor

FYI, the governor is Republican so you might be surprised/suspicious that he would be halting approvals. However, Gov Abbott had a political near-death experience a few years back involving an event called Snowpocalypse, in which the energy grid failed, so he might actually be motivated to make sure he's not put at risk of a repeat.

That's only one aspect of the pressure on him. The agricultural commissioner (also a Republican) fired a shot across his bow to place a state moratorium on data center projects. Plus, Abbott's support for the corrupt criminal Paxton and shoving a corrupt, cheating, gerrymandered map down the throats of voters spent a lot of political capital too. Abbott's hanging on by a thread.

Burying the lede, here

> ERCOT is currently tracking more than 1,800 projects in the queue, representing over 474 gigawatts of electricity, or more than five times the grid’s record for peak demand

So NY and Texas....

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