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11 notes carry this tag — 7 claims, 2 questions, 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
• In the 1976 'Midnight Connection,' a Texas utility deliberately linked its grid to Oklahoma to force federal jurisdiction, and regulators ordered the link cut within a year
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, oklahoma, ercot
• 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
• Texas kept its electric grid intrastate to dodge federal regulation under the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act, not for engineering reasons
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, regulation
• 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?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, interconnection
• Does a primary or scholarly source confirm that Texas kept its grid intrastate to avoid federal regulation under the 1935 PUHCA — and the 1976 'Midnight Connection' details?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · energy, grid, texas, ercot, regulation
• Texas's grid isolation, born as a 1935 federal-regulation dodge, is the same fault line AI's 'phantom load' boom is now testing
  capture promoted Tier mixed (Tier 2-3 trade/technical journalism; Tier 3-4 historical narrative; see per-claim tiers below) 2026-07-09 · energy-grid, ai-infrastructure, regulation, texas, hop-capture