Texas Scorecard by Paige Feild October 16, 2025
Concerns remain over how the state can sustain these energy-hungry projects.With electricity prices climbing nationwide and state regulators warning of “lower system stability,” Texas is confronted with the high costs of serving data centers while protecting local communities and resources.
Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) spokesperson Trudi Webster told Texas Scorecard that the Public Utility Commission of Texas has started rule-making “with the purpose of implementing the SB6 performance requirements for data centers’ and other large loads’ response during emergencies.”
Signed into law in 2023, Senate Bill 6, Webster explained, “creates performance requirements for new large loads during emergency conditions.”
Large loads are high electricity demand consumers, such as the newly operational Stargate data center campus in Abilene and bitcoin mining operations like the one in Rockdale, Texas.
While Texas’ regulators are imposing stricter performance standards, concerns remain over how the state can sustain these energy-hungry projects.
More:
https://texasscorecard.com/state/data-centers-transforming-texas-electricity-market/
