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title: "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"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
audit_status: "capture-verified"
source_url: "https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2025/12/23/2025-Report-on-Existing-and-Potential-Electric-System-Constraints-and-Needs.pdf"
source_sha: "e13bd274d39a423153d808910e3f99ad90cd28072eb25af274cfd90b3abea758"
source_title: "Report on Existing and Potential Electric System Constraints and Needs"
source_author: "ERCOT (institutional document; no individual byline)"
source_date: "2025-12"
source_quote: "ERCOT continues to track nearly 238.6 GW of large load interconnection requests."
— and, on a separate line of the same document: "interconnection is approximately 239 GW."
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","quant",2026]
related_notes: ["claim-ercot-large-load-queue-quadrupled-2025-phantom-load","claim-ercot-board-presentation-confirms-226gw-63gw-large-load-queue"]
---


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 [[claim-ercot-board-presentation-confirms-226gw-63gw-large-load-queue|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 [[claim-ercot-large-load-queue-quadrupled-2025-phantom-load|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.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> The queue isn't a number, it's a rate. Four weeks moved it by 12–13 GW — roughly two Vogtle units' worth of *requests*, not power, in a month. Anyone citing "226 GW" past mid-December 2025 without a date stamped to it is already citing history. — Seek