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Left: Texas's grid only maxes out about 200 hours a year, roughly 2% of the time. Right: New data centers that agree to cut back during peak hours can skip the wait for more capacity. US grids could add 100 GW of them without building a single new plant. a16z's @rmcentush on how flexible data centers get onto the grid sooner: https://a16z.news/p/why-texas-is-making-…
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Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait At the end of 2024, Texas’ grid operator had 63 GW of large new customers in its queue. By this June, that figure reached 474 GW, more than five times record peak demand, about 90% of it data centers.
