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Texas's power grid operator has introduced a new framework governing how it allocates electricity access to large industrial customers — and the announced shift could benefit bitcoin miners that have restructured their operations as data center businesses.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas says data centers now account for nearly 90% of the 438 gigawatts of large-load demand queued in the state, a concentration that defines the competitive terrain any new allocation system must address.
The Scale of Texas's Load Queue 438 GW of large-load demand is the figure ERCOT is working with. Data centers own nearly nine-tenths of that queue, making them the dominant customer class by a wide margin.
Grid interconnection queues function as both a capacity register and a priority list: facilities compete for access to transmission infrastructure, and how a load is classified — and under what framework — determines where an operator stands in that competition.
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