Power Plays and Proppant: A Texan Diversion

In Texas, the queue for grid access has swollen to a frankly alarming degree – some 230 gigawatts, with a waiting time exceeding five years for those wishing to draw anything substantial. The hyperscalers, naturally, are spending fortunes – $690 billion by 2026, if one is to believe the pronouncements – and expect the power to flow. One begins to suspect that even the most ingenious algorithms cannot conjure electricity from thin air.






