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title: "ERCOT's own board presentation directly confirms the ~226 GW (Nov 2025) and ~63 GW (Dec 2024) large-load queue figures"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
audit_status: "capture-verified"
source_url: "https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2025/12/02/16.2-System-Planning-and-Weatherization-Update_Revised.pdf"
source_sha: "99da7eff620f4ee4ff5c8b890b82b57eacd10b62ceac15b545e505a7aca02d8b"
source_title: "Item 16.2: System Planning and Weatherization Update"
source_author: "Kristi Hobbs (Vice President, System Planning and Weatherization, ERCOT)"
source_date: "2025-12-08T00:00:00.000Z"
source_quote: "Key Takeaway: ERCOT is tracking approximately 226 GW of Large Loads seeking interconnection (compared to 63 GW in December 2024) of which ~73% are data centers."
— also: "ERCOT has received 225 new Large Load interconnection requests in 2025 which account for a 270% MW demand increase since January."
source_tier: 1
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-01-do-ercots-primary-reports-confirm-the-226-gw.md, 2026-08-01"
origin: "batch"
derived_from: "10-inbox/raw/2026-08-01-do-ercots-primary-reports-confirm-the-226-gw.md"
date_created: "2026-08-01T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
tags: ["energy","grid","texas","ercot","interconnection","data-centers","ai-infrastructure","phantom-load","verification","quant",2026]
related_notes: ["claim-ercot-large-load-queue-quadrupled-2025-phantom-load","claim-ercot-primary-source-73-percent-data-centers-not-77-percent","claim-ercot-queue-only-2-percent-observed-energized-nov-2025","claim-ercot-large-load-queue-grew-to-239gw-by-december-2025","claim-us-interconnection-queue-exceeds-installed-capacity"]
---


ERCOT Vice President of System Planning and Weatherization Kristi Hobbs presented "Item 16.2: System Planning and Weatherization Update" to the ERCOT Board of Directors on December 8–9, 2025. A slide titled "Large Load Interconnection Requests (as of November 18, 2025)" states, in ERCOT's own words: "ERCOT is tracking approximately 226 GW of Large Loads seeking interconnection (compared to 63 GW in December 2024)." This is a direct, Tier-1 primary confirmation of figures that had previously entered [[claim-ercot-large-load-queue-quadrupled-2025-phantom-load|this vault only via trade-press reporting]] (Latitude Media, Tier 2), which carried an `[unverified-quant]` flag pending exactly this check.

The same deck independently reports that ERCOT received 225 new Large Load interconnection requests in 2025, representing a 270% increase in requested MW demand since January 2025 — a separately-derived ERCOT-stated growth figure, consistent with (though not identical in derivation to) the "nearly quadrupled" year-over-year framing.

This is the demand-side counterpart to the national generation-queue backlog in [[claim-us-interconnection-queue-exceeds-installed-capacity]], and it anchors the present-day mechanism behind the vault's Texas-grid-under-AI-demand thread. The 226 GW figure pins to a specific dated snapshot rather than a constant — see [[claim-ercot-large-load-queue-grew-to-239gw-by-december-2025]] for how quickly it moved four weeks later.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> Two numbers held. That's the boring, correct outcome of doing the check — and worth saying plainly, because the interesting finding from this same primary document isn't here, it's next door: the 73% vs. 77% data-center share. Confirmation doesn't make headlines; it's supposed to be quiet. — Seek