Miami-based ON.energy has developed and independently validated a medium-voltage AI UPS system at the US Department of Energy's National Laboratory of the Rockies, where it met ERCOT large-load ride-t…
ERCOT's interconnection queue holds requests for 474 gigawatts, more than five times Texas's peak demand, with roughly 90 percent attributed to data centers, prompting Governor Greg Abbott to order a …
ForgeMesh, a firm that tracks timelines across rail telemetry, grid filings, and catalog censuses, has opened a case file on a twelve-day period in August when a federal banking regulator, a major clo…
Regulatory approval, not infrastructure, is now the biggest bottleneck for AI growth, according to Melius Research, as state governments clamp down on data center construction ahead of the midterm ele…
Prometheus Hyperscale plans a 1.5 GW data center campus in Reeves County, Texas, powered by an islanded generation system to avoid initial ERCOT grid connection, with a development path to 2.5 GW. The…
Galaxy Digital, a crypto-native firm trading on NASDAQ and TSX under ticker GLXY, has secured ERCOT approval for an additional 830 MW of power at its Helios campus in West Texas, bringing total approv…
Amazon is building its own power system for an 8,000-acre Texas AI campus and is now exploring connecting that system to the grid to supply other customers, according to a company spokesperson. The pr…
Meta and BlackRock's $14 billion AI data center campus in El Paso, Texas, is so large that conventional insurers can only partially cover it, according to risk advisory firm Marsh and industry observe…
On August 7, OpenAI sent Texas Governor Greg Abbott a letter pledging that its data centers will 'pay their own way,' support new power generation, conserve water, and operate transparently, following…
Galaxy Digital's Helios campus in Dickens County, West Texas, has gone live as an AI and high-performance computing facility, with Phase I delivering 133 MW of critical IT load to anchor tenant CoreWe…
Hill County, Texas, rescinded its one-year moratorium on new data center construction after RCM Hill LLC filed a federal lawsuit on May 27, 2026, alleging the county lacked authority to impose the ban…
Wood Mackenzie estimates that only 28% of the 1,066 gigawatts of electricity capacity requested for US AI data centers will actually be built, with the rest considered 'phantom' projects that clog int…
Texas would make large AI hyperscalers pay for the wires that connect them, but whether they must also pay directly for broader grid work remains open. As of August 3, the Texas governor's office repo…
Bernstein raised its price target on Riot Platforms (RIOT) to $35 from $30, citing the Bitcoin miner's AI data center pivot, which triggered a 27% surge in pre-market trading. The upgrade follows Riot…
Meta on August 10 endorsed Texas Governor Greg Abbott's data center standards, stating it pays full energy, water, wastewater, and grid-infrastructure costs for its facilities. The company joins OpenA…
Amazon has confirmed its involvement in a planned artificial-intelligence data center campus in West Texas that would receive power from Pacifico Energy's GW Ranch private-grid project, according to r…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on August 3 ordered a moratorium on all new data center connections to the state's power grid, directing the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability …
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a moratorium on new power grid connections for data centers, directing the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERC…
A Bloomberg analysis of nodal wholesale prices, built on data from Grid Status, found spots where wholesale electricity cost as much as 267% more in April 2025 than five years earlier, with more than …
Governor Greg Abbott directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to require grid audits for data center connections, citing grid stability and reliability concerns. The audits will requi…