ERCOT's large-load interconnection queue grew to roughly 238.6–239 GW by December 17, 2025 — about four weeks after the 226 GW snapshot

A separate ERCOT primary document, "Report on Existing and Potential Electric System Constraints and Needs" (December 2025), gives a newer snapshot than the November 18, 2025 figure behind the 226 GW headline: as of December 17, 2025 — about four weeks later — ERCOT was tracking nearly 238.6 GW of large-load interconnection requests, with the report's key-takeaways page independently stating the total load seeking interconnection at "approximately 239 GW."

This confirms the general order of magnitude and the rapid-growth trend of the underlying claim, but underscores that "226 GW" pins to one specific ERCOT snapshot date, not a fixed constant — any later citation of "the ERCOT large-load queue" without a date attached is citing a number that had already moved by roughly 5–6% within a month. One quoting note: this document's PDF text extracts in an interleaved two-column order, so the "more than three times as many...compared to 2024" framing surrounding the 239 GW figure — present in the document but spanning interleaved column lines in the raw extracted text — is paraphrased rather than quoted here, per the vault's rule that a source_quote must be verbatim-grounded.