Bitcoin miners saved Texas power grid from collapse, but their lucrative pivot to AI is stripping away the emergency brake
Texas broke its all-time electrical energy demand report twice in two days final week. ERCOT served a preliminary 91,308 megawatts round 5 p.m. on July 22, sooner or later after demand hit 87,403 megawatts and erased the 85,508-megawatt mark that had stood since Aug. 10, 2023. Neither afternoon noticed an attraction for power conservation, and…
