Not exactly. Texas has temporarily halted approvals for new data centers that want to connect to the state’s electric grid. • ERCOT is dealing with roughly 474 gigawatts of proposed large-load connections. • About 90% of those requests are associated with data centers. • Texas' all-time peak electricity demand is only around 91 GW. • The requests in the queue represent more than five times the state's record peak demand

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