AI could strain Texas power grid this summer

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Power grid anxiety is nothing new in Texas. But a surge in artificial intelligence data centers is posing a new challenge to an already fragile energy system.

Control room at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. ERCOT manages the electric grid and power flow for 24 million Texans.

Ever since a deadly blackout in 2021, state officials have worked to strengthen the power grid. They’ve started programs to subsidize new power plants and improve transmission lines. “That’s sort of wild to think about,” Lewin said. “That’s a huge, huge break from the way things have been done.” “On legislation what would be more helpful for ERCOT is to have more visibility to what these large loads are doing,” he said. “And so a good place to start could be making sure we can track and even potentially control the loads of cryptos.”

“We cannot build the grid fast enough to keep up with demand… Even before we had every damned crypto and data center ... move to Texas,” Alison Silverstein, a consultant and former state and federal energy official, told KUT. than any other state. Silverstein has long advocated for increasing energy efficiency standards in the state to help bolster the energy system.

 

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