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When A Heatwave Struck, Texas Paid A Bitcoin Miner $31.7 Million To Chill Out
IFLScience· 7 hours agoWith summer temperatures baking much of the US, Texas's notoriously ailing power grid is set to be...
Texas power grid is challenged by electricity-loving computer data centers
NPR· 4 days agoThat same group, known here as ERCOT, puts the chance of rolling blackouts at around 12% this August. Now, some of those risks are not new. Texas summers ...
Texas Supreme Court sides with state regulators on $16 billion winter storm overcharges
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 7 days agoSnow, ice and widespread blackouts caused the winter storm in February 2021 to become one of the...
Worried about the Texas power grid this summer? You’ve got company, poll says
Fort Worth Star-Telegram McClatchy via AOL· 3 days agoThe Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the power grid manager for most of the state, has in the...
Coal does, in fact, 'quit.' No form of energy is 100% reliable | Fact check
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn May 2022, coal plants unexpectedly went offline in Texas near the beginning of a record-breaking...
Texans are expecting rolling blackouts this summer, poll finds
Axios· 4 days agoThreat level: Grid operators said last week that there's a 12% chance of rolling blackouts in August...
Power-hungry AI boom making power grids dirtier, less reliable
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 days agoFrom simple ChatGPT queries — which themselves can consume as much electricity as a 60-watt...
Good news for Texas power grid in ERCOT's summer outlook
WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth· 6 days agoTexas is less likely to experience an energy emergency this summer than it was last summer,...
AI could strain Texas power grid this summer
Denton Record-Chronicle· 1 day agoTexas is no stranger to power grid anxiety. Between the heat that’s only getting hotter, an aging fleet of power plants, and the challenges of...
Ted Cruz leads Colin Allred by double digits in latest UT poll
Odessa American· 4 days agoCruz, a Republican who is vying for a third term, was favored by 45% of the survey’s respondents...
