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data-centers

9 notes carry this tag — 7 claims, 2 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Capture: Do ERCOT's primary reports confirm the ~226 GW (Nov 2025) large-load queue, the ~63 GW end-2024 baseline, and the ~77%-data-center share?
  capture promoted 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• ERCOT's own board presentation directly confirms the ~226 GW (Nov 2025) and ~63 GW (Dec 2024) large-load queue figures
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• 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
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• ERCOT's own primary source states ~73% of its large-load queue is data centers — not the ~77% figure widely reproduced in trade press
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• Only about 2% of ERCOT's 226 GW large-load queue had been 'Observed Energized' as of November 2025
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-01 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• Luccioni, Strubell & Crawford (FAccT 2025) invoke the Jevons paradox to argue that per-model AI efficiency gains will not reduce, and may increase, total AI energy consumption
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · ai-energy, jevons-paradox, rebound-effect, efficiency, data-centers
• ERCOT's large-load interconnection queue reached about 226 GW by November 2025 — roughly quadruple a year earlier — with about 73% from data centers and an unknown share of speculative 'phantom load'
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• AI's inference-driven power demand is reviving nuclear power, but the US grid interconnection queue may be the real bottleneck
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · energy, nuclear-power, AI-infrastructure, data-centers, grid
• Microsoft's 20-year PPA to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 as the Crane Clean Energy Center is a nuclear bet on AI power demand
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · energy, nuclear-power, AI-infrastructure, data-centers, compute-economics