Pablo Vegas

August 10, 2026

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June 18, 2026

Governor Abbott's June 10 letter asked PUCT chairman Thomas Gleeson and ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas to propose rules shielding residential customers from data center-driven bills.

June 16, 2026

In a letter to PUC Chairman Thomas Gleeson and ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas, Abbott directed datacenters to fund 100% of their own electric infrastructure costs and structured interconnections so residential bills decline.

June 13, 2026

Pablo Vegas called it "an unprecedented change in the pace of growth."

June 11, 2026

Pablo Vegas called the scale unprecedented in ERCOT history.

May 14, 2026

Translation from Pablo Vegas: projects move slower than developers pitch.

April 18, 2026

President and CEO Pablo Vegas acknowledging the forecast runs "higher than expected future load growth."

April 14, 2026

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas told the House Committee on State Affairs that incoming data center projects plan to draw 410,000 additional megawatts from the grid, roughly seven times the new demand ERCOT managed just two years ago.

April 13, 2026

CEO Pablo Vegas told the House Committee on State Affairs that 410,000 megawatts of data center demand sit in the interconnection queue, 87% of all incoming requests, roughly seven times the growth ERCOT managed just two years ago.

April 12, 2026

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas told legislators a transmission capacity study is underway to map available infrastructure and allocate annual interconnection capacity over a five-year horizon.

April 10, 2026

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas told the House Committee on State Affairs that over 130,000 megawatts of new projects entered the interconnection queue in the last month and a half, with data centers comprising roughly 87% of queue growth.

April 9, 2026

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas is responding with a carrot-and-stick framework offering faster interconnection to data centers that supply their own generation or agree to curtail on demand.