While Oklahoma adopted a “behind the meter” approach to deal with the rapid growth of industrial projects such as data centers, Texas took a different approach.
Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed a law in which state regulators will develop what are called demand management programs, a move to cut data center power supplies at times when there is high energy demand, i.e. summer heat or winter storms.
In other words, it puts more control over the growing number of data centers in Texas and is doing so through the signing of Senate Bill 6. The new law is essentially a voluntary demand procurement program but it also includes cost-sharing rules and mandatory interconnection study fees.
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