Research
Reading from GridLeads.
Short studies and statistics from the large-load data we collect. New pieces are added as we finish them.
Stargate Abilene campus: the whole recordEvery dated public record of one 1.2 GW campus, from the December 2021 county notice to the latest filing, three years before the Stargate name.16 October 2026 · Read →AI infrastructure: the financial-physical feedback loopHow AI capex, debt and credit stress turn into power demand on the US grid, who finances whom, and why the interconnection queue is not the same as demand.15 October 2026 · Read →Who powers Texas's large loads?We checked where 378 Texas data centers, crypto mines and factories get their power: their own generation, the grid only, or unknown.14 October 2026 · Read →Texas data centers and water: the 18 counties Paxton namedHow the 18 counties named in the September 2026 water investigation score on water stress and new data center demand.5 October 2026 · Read →
More studies on other grid operators are coming.