March 11, 2025--Written by Paul Wiseman for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Energy demand is rising at alarming rates across the U.S. but nowhere is it accelerating as quickly as in Texas, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) says it has received requests for 99 gigawatts (GW) of new grid connections from large users including bitcoin miners, data centers and others this year, according to a Bloomberg report. That amounts to more than double the requests from this time in 2024.