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Texas just froze new data center permits:

- Its queue went from 63 GW to 474 GW in 18 months, more than 5x record peak demand

- Only 9.5 GW is approved and about 4.3 GW is actually running

- The rest is duplicates, speculation, and developers who have never plugged in a GPU

Ryan McEntush@rmcentush · Oct 7 Open quoted post →

Oct 7, 2026, 4:40 PM UTC

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