Texas’ halt on powering data centres reflects U.S. reckoning over ‘ghost’ demand

Data centres have requested roughly as much electricity across the middle swath of the United States as it takes to power every home in the country, but much of that demand may be an illusion.

Texas' halt on powering data centers reflects US reckoning over 'ghost' demand  reuters.com

Sept 1 : Data centers have requested roughly as much electricity across the middle swath of the United States as it takes to power every home in the country, but much of that demand may be an illusion.In an attempt to find out what is real, Texas recently became the first major data center hub to freeze new grid connec