Texas was the leading state in new grid battery installs for the last few years.

A lot would probably be an understatement. Aren't most batteries in data centers designed to just hold load for seconds or a few minutes at a time while generators start up?

I'd rather see legislation banning crypto mining and AI data centers from the public grid entirely. No sense in forcing the broader public to subsidize them.

More scarce resources used to feed the surveillance state's fancy chat bots