June 5 (Reuters) - Several large data centers and crypto facilities planning to connect to the Texas power grid ahead of peak summer demand have failed key reliability tests, raising the risk of power ...

ERCOT, which operates the state's primary power grid, is forecasting that power demand on its system will reach a record 92 gigawatts this summer.

The Texas electric grid could experience a new all-time peak demand this summer thanks to a combination of hotter temperatures and growing number of large electricity users, like data centers. Despite ...

Texas is heading into summer 2026 with a power grid under pressure from two directions. Data centers and large computing facilities are adding enormous, continuous electricity demand. At the same time ...

The flood of data centers signaling interest in Texas keeps growing to ever more impossible heights, prompting questions and anxiety about how the state’s power grid can keep up. To manage this growth ...

Several large data centers, crypto sites failed grid reliability tests ahead of summer peak ERCOT reviewing failures, developing mitigation plans as abrupt disconnections risk outages Regulators ...