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Land Commissioner Buckingham Announces Push for New Energy Production on State Lands | The Texan
The Texas General Land office will open a request for information about developing geothermal, small modular reactors and natural gas across the state. Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham sees these technologies as “very different approaches to the same challenge: producing dependable power right here at home.”
In a press release shared exclusively with The Texan, Buckingham said that “Texas built its economy by putting our natural resources to work, and we cannot afford to stop innovation now.”
“Our state needs dependable energy to power homes, businesses, manufacturing, and the next generation of American industries. We have an opportunity to look beyond traditional energy sources and develop the resources and technologies that can keep Texas powered for decades to come,” she said.
ERCOT to survey more than 400 data centers as part of Gov. Abbott’s audit | KERA News
The state’s power grid managers plan to launch a survey of 461 data centers’ water and energy usage as part of an audit ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott…
The survey’s participants include 247 large data centers, classified as projects that are requesting at least 75 megawatts of power from the Texas grid — enough to power 18,750 Texas homes during a hot summer day or cold winter night. It also includes 214 “medium” data centers, which are requesting between 25 and 75 megawatts of power from the grid.
