A state freezes grid connections after datacenters queue 474 gigawatts

Claim

Texas froze new grid connections after data centers queued 474 gigawatts, five times the state's record demand, with the governor's challenger one point behind and pressing, while a civil-rights group sued over gas turbines at a Memphis supercomputer site.

Reported metric: 474 GW queued

Reporting date: 2026-08-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to August 5, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)