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NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corporation) is the organization responsible for establishing and enforcing reliability standards for the bulk power system, including infrastructure serving Texas datacenters.
April 16, 2026
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Engage Early or Inherit Someone Else's Moratorium
Utah faces a similar squeeze: 920 MW of current data center capacity will triple to 3,500 MW as 2,600 MW come under construction, with the North American Electricity Reliability Corporation projecting elevated grid risk there beginning in 2031.
March 18, 2026
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50 GW of AI Capacity Is About to Face Generator-Level Oversight
NERC is fast-tracking new reliability standards for AI datacenters, launching a standards-drafting project this week after labeling sudden AI training load swings a "high likelihood, high impact" cascading blackout risk.
March 2, 2026
Developers Face 300 Bills and One Hard Truth: Water Has No WorkaroundNERC flagged growing data center power demand as raising outage risk across Western regions.
February 9, 2026
The Grid Can't Build Fast Enough, So the Industry Is ImprovisingNERC's 2025 Long-Term Reliability Assessment delivers its starkest warning yet: summer peak demand will grow 224 GW over the next decade (69% above last year's forecast), while 105 GW of capacity retires, and the generation pipeline is tilting hard toward renewables and storage that underperform in winter.
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