H4shr8 Crypto Mining Podcast

You're listening to The Mining Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 8,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Want to mine Bitcoin? Check out the Blockspace Media store today! 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. Notes: • ERCOT expects 150GW peak demand by 2030 • ERCOT current peak load is 84GW (2024) • 6GW of data center demand expected next year • 24GW solar deployment planned 2024-2025 • 13GW storage deployment planned 2024-2025 • $40B worth of nat gas plants proposed Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:02 ERCOT's surging power demand 05:37 2023 power price spikes 10:42 ERCOT energy storage plans 17:58 Does storage