What AI Means for ERCOT and the Texas Grid w/ Haley Thomson

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Haley Thomson, director of energy trading at Luxor

Technologies, joins us to dive deep into ERCOT’s unique energy market and how Texas plans to manage the incoming wave of AI and HPC data center demand. We explore battery storage solutions, creative power generation approaches, and why Texas has become the epicenter of both crypto mining and AI computing infrastructure.

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