Texas approves $13.8B 765 kV transmission backbone to power AI data center growth
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Shane Snider
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Texas regulators approved a $13.8 billion, 765-kilovolt transmission strategy in April 2025 — the first extra-high-voltage backbone in ERCOT history. The decision aims to build massive grid capacity to attract AI data centers, cryptocurrency mining, and other large-scale electrical loads, positioning transmission infrastructure as a key enabler of next-generation AI development.
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· 3 pulledThe next generation of AI infrastructure may owe as much to transmission planning as semiconductor design.
Texas regulators approved a 765-kilovolt transmission strategy estimated at roughly $13.8 billion, embracing the first extra-high-voltage transmission backbone in ERCOT history.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas concluded that the new transmission corridor would better accommodate decades of growth in data centers, cryptocurrency mining, hydrogen production and other large electrical loads.
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