Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

July 9, 2026

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89% of New Power Requests Are Datacenters. Abbott Wants Guardrails.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory pegs direct data center consumption at 17.4 billion gallons in 2023, under 1% of U.S. use, yet Gallup finds seven in ten Americans oppose data centers with water as the top concern.

July 2, 2026

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FERC Orders Six Grid Operators to Defend the Rules or Rewrite Them

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory counts more than 2,060 GW of generation and storage seeking grid connection nationwide, double the country's entire installed capacity.

June 27, 2026

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Anchors Are Building Their Own Power to Skip the Texas Queue

Lawrence Berkeley pegs 2023 U.S. data-center use at 228 billion gallons, mostly tied to electricity generation.

June 2, 2026

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Ride-Through Becomes the New Phase I Discipline for Texas Sites

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory pegs 2023 direct U.S. data center water use at 17 billion gallons, with indirect consumption from generation cooling at 211 billion, a 12x multiplier that could double to quadruple by 2028.

April 29, 2026

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory tracked nearly 2,600 GW of generation and storage seeking interconnection in 2023, more than twice the existing US fleet, while interconnection timelines stretch 36 to 48 months.