a16z|Oct 07, 2026 16:42
Texas just froze new data center permits:
- Its queue went from 63 GW to 474 GW in 18 months, more than 5x record peak demand
- Only 9.5 GW is approved and about 4.3 GW is actually running
- The rest is duplicates, speculation, and developers who have never plugged in a GPU
a16z's @rmcentush on why the grid can't build for that many maybes: https://www.a16z.news/p/why-texas-is-making-data-centers
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