Paxton vs Talarico Goes Nuclear, ERCOT Chokes Data Centers & BP Burns Its Boss | BDE 26.05.28

About this episode

The episode discusses the Texas Senate race, ERCOT's data center issues, and BP's recent leadership changes.

BP just fired its chairman after eight months, and that somehow is not even the wildest thing this week. The Texas Senate race opens with Ken Paxton and James Talarico already swinging, vegan campaign ads and all. ERCOT's interconnection queue is buried under 410 gigawatts of data center dreams at a 1.5 percent approval rate, so off grid gas starts looking real. Plus a quant trading lab built with Claude, Cushing draws getting tight, the shaky Iran ceasefire, and a Wuhan study with some nerve. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 - Texas Senate race kicks off, Paxton vs Talarico 08:22 - Welcome and a little name dropping 09:38 - Summer mode and baseball season 10:46 - Building a trading lab with Claude 15:02 - ERCOT's data center interconnection logjam 25:52 - BP fires another one at the top 33:45 - Iran strikes and the shaky ceasefire 37:40 - SPR and…

Topics covered

• Texas Senate race
• data centers
• BP chairman firing
• ERCOT
• Iran ceasefire
• quant trading

Keywords

• Texas Senate race
• ERCOT
• BP
• data centers
• Iran ceasefire
• quant trading
• Cushing draws
• Wuhan study

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BP, ERCOT

Books & works: Claude

Places: Texas, Iran, Wuhan

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