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Reporting on Texas campus decisions
Interconnection, water, approvals and capital: the decisions that determine whether a data center campus phase moves.
September 13, 2026A water-use survey is now an ERCOT gating item
Texas water agencies told a Senate committee that responding to their water-use surveys is now a de facto prerequisite for ERCOT interconnection approval. What Batch Zero classification did and did not test.
August 26, 2026The words tenant, lessee and occupant appear zero times in the rule that allocates your megawatts
ERCOT attaches one Batch Zero allocation to one entity behind one point of interconnection, and never says how a campus divides it among tenants. What that means for apportionment, milestone risk and lease drafting.