It’s been a fairly quiet legislative session for the power grid — at least in comparison to the last two — but one energy-related item is drawing most of the attention: coping with the influx of data centers and other large electricity loads.
The Texas House State Affairs Committee will field testimony on Senate Bill (SB) 6, a proposal that aims to establish guidelines for the interconnection of operations that exceed 75 megawatts of power usage. The face of that category is data centers, an industry pivotal to an economy that is increasingly reliant on the internet to operate. And as artificial intelligence becomes more and more ubiquitous, the need for data centers only grows with it. But that comes at a cost.
