What about the vast energy required by fabs? Do you have a special tax to reinvest and maintain the grid or do they pay the same rates as a normal Arizona grocery store? Texas is hardly a paragon of a stable grid given the blackouts the past few years.
Despite the headlines, Texas has a fairly stable grid. They have work to do, but all grids do. In the end it doesn't matter too much as you cannot make a grid stable enough to rely on without backup power onsite and once you have that you can ride out most unstable events.
> Despite the headlines, Texas has a fairly stable grid.
Have the power generators applied any of the recommendations in the report commissioned by ERCOT after the 2021 blackouts? When the 2021 blackouts happened, they had not implemented any of the winterization updates recommended by the another report a decade earlier (2011). The outcome of the 2021 blackouts was the legislature allowing utility companies to claw back their "losses" from customers' bills over 10+ years - with no obligation to make changes or investing in equipment to ensure there same cascading failures won't happen again.