The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is changing the way it evaluates its transmission capacity to connect data centers, cryptocurrency miners and other "large loads" to the grid.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Texas power grid system, which failed during a winter storm five years ago, could be put to the test this weekend as the ...

The Texas power grid system, which failed during a previous winter storm, could be put to the test this weekend as the region faces subfreezing temperatures and dangerous wind chills. But Texas ...

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The Texas power grid system, which failed during a winter storm five years ago, could be put to the test this weekend as the region faces subfreezing temperatures and dangerous wind chills. But Texas ...