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When A Heatwave Struck, Texas Paid A Bitcoin Miner $31.7 Million To Chill Out
IFLScience· 11 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 ...
Ted Cruz leads Colin Allred by double digits in latest UT poll
Texas Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 days agoLast year, Texas Republicans passed a legally dubious law creating a state penalty for illegally...
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...
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...
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...
More rooftop solar, less red tape
Dallas Morning News· 7 days agoTexas and 650,000 in North Texas at the end of May were a further reminder, if we needed one, that major changes to our grid are urgently required. More...
