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'We are not a bunch of woke Marxist liberals here': Rural voters scramble Texas election (opens the original)
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HOUSTON — Rural voters may not stop the spread of data centers, but they could stop Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. The Republican is bleeding support from small towns as he seeks a fourth term because of two late-emerging issues: power-hungry tech campuses and a planned $33 billion electric transmission build-out. Pushback against Abbott points to larger fears about losing rural identities, but also to everyday concerns about construction, pollution and tight supplies of water and electricity. Shawn Na
Power crunch puts West Texas at risk of rolling blackouts, says grid official (opens the original)
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One of Texas’ top grid officials warned Friday that the western part of the state could see rolling blackouts within five years if more transmission lines aren’t built. Woody Rickerson, chief operating officer of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, told the Public Utility Commission on Friday that all their demand forecast scenarios show there would be times when the current transmission system would be overloaded and could cause reliability problems. “When I say reliability pro
Power crunch puts West Texas at risk of rolling blackouts, says grid official (opens the original)
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One of Texas’ top grid officials warned Friday that the western part of the state could see rolling blackouts within five years if more transmission lines aren’t built. Woody Rickerson, chief operating officer of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, told the Public Utility Commission on Friday that all their demand forecast scenarios show there would be times when the current transmission system would be overloaded and could cause reliability problems. “When I say reliability pro
Amazon to run West Texas data center on massive gas plant (opens the original)
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Amazon is planning to tap one of the nation’s largest natural gas power plants — and possibly biggest single source of climate-warming emissions — to electrify a data center in West Texas. Margaret Callahan, an Amazon spokesperson, confirmed Monday that the company will pay the full cost of powering its operations at an 8,000-plus acre site in Pecos County. “Our new planned data center campus in Pecos County does just that: it’s powered by new on-site generation that won’t raise electricity cost
Trump calls Texas’ data center crackdown a ‘mistake’ (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump called Texas’ de facto data center moratorium “a mistake” in an interview released Friday, delivering a rare rebuke of a state he won three times. The comment was published days after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ordered the state’s power regulators to pause all new data center approvals until they audit projects looking to plug into the state’s grid. In the recent interview with Punchbowl News, Trump said he “saw Texas the other day sort of is against data centers,” though
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