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Greg Abbott: “What ERCOT was trying to do was try to make decisions about…”

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Gov. Greg Abbott Briefs Press On New Texas Property Tax Relief Efforts

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Why not call for a special session as Democrats want you to do? Why not do that on data centers? As you know, I've requested that the ERCOT as well as for the PUC together data. What ERCOT was trying to do was try to make decisions about adding five times more power to the grid than what they could currently are providing. That obviously is impossible to do. But even worse, the PUC had requested data and Information from all power grid operators and all that wanted to add on to the … (19:40–19:51)

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Asserts that ERCOT was trying to add five times more power to the grid than currently possible.

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