April 14, 2026
ERCOT's Batch Rules Are Still in Draft. Your Invoices Are Not.Ed Hirs, oil and gas expert, put it bluntly: data centers seeking grid access will need to fund their own generation or power supply.
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Ed Hirs
Ed Hirs is an energy economist at the University of Houston who has provided expert analysis on Texas's electricity grid reliability and energy infrastructure challenges.
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April 13, 2026
ERCOT's Queue Is Separating Real Developers From the RestEd Hirs, oil and gas expert, put it plainly: "There's no way that they'll be able to join the group without bringing some amount of their own electricity."
March 6, 2026
Seven Signatures, One Fed Model, and 0.13 Points of InflationEd Hirs, University of Houston energy economist, flagged that the seven signatories represent only a fraction of datacenter operators.
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