The longer the moratorium stays in place, the greater the risk to Texas’ data center boom, analysts at Bloomberg NEF said.
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The longer the moratorium stays in place, the greater the risk to Texas’ data center boom, analysts at Bloomberg NEF said.
Published Aug. 6, 2026
A data center jobsite in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott, R, on Aug. 3, 2026, called for an audit of all data centers in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas interconnection queue.
Texas slams on the breaks for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium
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