Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are 5 times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1309635/texas-slams-on-the-brakes-for-1800-data-centers-power-grid-requirements-are-5-times-high

Inb4 they just start building them off grid with diesel generators, and they can’t do anything about it because Exxon lobbied the Texas government to make the “right to bear diesel generators” constitutionally protected.