Big Tech's AI data centers are pushing the power grid to its limits — and one state is feeling it the most

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Everything is bigger in Texas — and that includes the data center demand straining its power grid. Texas data center development has become so rampant that the state is on track to become the world's data center capital by 2030, surpassing Virginia. Just last week, Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the Lone Star State's grid operator, told state regulators that power demand is on track to quadruple by 2032, driven by an unprecedented surge in large data center projects seeking to connect