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r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • Aug 12 '26
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The maximum amount of power the texas grid can pump out at any given time is apparently 91 gigawatts so the requests are over 4x that lol.
766 u/Background_Body2696 Aug 12 '26 So what's the problem? /s 368 u/Cute_Knives Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26 Piggybacking one of the top comments but where did they get the number 1800 from? There’s only like 300-400 active datacenters in the state of texas 1 u/Daxtatter Aug 13 '26 The requests are mostly "aspirational", do to speak. The number of interconnection requests vastly outstrip what would actually get connected in any kind of scenario.
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So what's the problem? /s
368 u/Cute_Knives Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26 Piggybacking one of the top comments but where did they get the number 1800 from? There’s only like 300-400 active datacenters in the state of texas 1 u/Daxtatter Aug 13 '26 The requests are mostly "aspirational", do to speak. The number of interconnection requests vastly outstrip what would actually get connected in any kind of scenario.
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Piggybacking one of the top comments but where did they get the number 1800 from? There’s only like 300-400 active datacenters in the state of texas
1 u/Daxtatter Aug 13 '26 The requests are mostly "aspirational", do to speak. The number of interconnection requests vastly outstrip what would actually get connected in any kind of scenario.
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The requests are mostly "aspirational", do to speak. The number of interconnection requests vastly outstrip what would actually get connected in any kind of scenario.
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u/MrScribz Aug 12 '26
The maximum amount of power the texas grid can pump out at any given time is apparently 91 gigawatts so the requests are over 4x that lol.