The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) have set December 10, 2026, as the deadline for data center and crypto-mining operators to prove their interconnection projects are real, funded, and ready to build. ERCOT is currently tracking approximately 226 GW of large-load interconnection requests (75 MW or more), out of a total of 474 GW, with about 90% attributed to data centers. Operators must provide ownership records, site access permissions, purchase orders, and construction contracts as proof. This verification, ordered by Governor Greg Abbott, aims to eliminate speculative or zombie projects that are clogging the queue and distorting infrastructure investment. Projects that cannot be verified will be removed from the queue, which could ease generation capacity forecasts or, conversely, reveal the limits of Texas’s construction capacity.
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