The Public Utility Commission of Texas will vote today on ERCOT’s proposal to streamline the power approval process for large loads (data centers).
The meeting begins at 9:30 am CT: https://t.co/x1ofS73PlZ
Experts from the big data center companies are now talking about the utility of more, smaller data centers that are widely distributed to replace some of the ever larger data centers being widely discussed.
There is still a role for large, centralized AI data centers, but many roles are better served, with less impact on the grid, by distributed facilities.
(I might have read about this concept somewhere else.)