July 28, 2026 at 9:00 am CDT
“No tax exemption should operate on autopilot”: Senate Finance weighs $3.3 billion tax break for data centers
A sales tax break that cost Texas an estimated $14.
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July 28, 2026 at 8:05 am CDT
Texas Senators Take Up the Grid as the State’s Data-Center Rules Remain Half-Written
The Texas Senate's Business and Commerce Committee meets Wednesday to review the state of the electric grid, and the item that will get the most attention on its agenda is the rulebook meant to keep a wave of new data centers from raising costs and risking reliability.
July 24, 2026 at 10:52 am CDT
East Texas Data Center Withdraws After Falling Short of Abbott’s Standards
Governor Greg Abbott announced that Diode will not pursue a proposed data center near Cedar Creek Lake in Henderson County after the company determined the project did not meet the Governor’s directives or community expectations, according to a July 23 news release.
July 22, 2026 at 9:25 am CDT
Senate Business and Commerce to weigh the state of the grid and the fight over 765-kV transmission lines
The Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce will take invited and public testimony July 29 on ERCOT reliability and Senate Bill 6's large-load rules, and on how a fast-expanding network of 765-kilovolt transmission lines will affect Texas landowners.
July 22, 2026 at 7:31 am CDT
Texas Utility Regulators Ask Lawmakers for New Power Over Data Centers, Including a Foreign-Ownership Grid Safeguard
The agencies that run the Texas power grid have told Governor Greg Abbott they need new legal authority to keep the state's data-center boom from raising electric bills and threatening reliability — and, in one recommendation, to stop a hostile foreign government from using a data center to disrupt the grid.
July 20, 2026 at 6:30 am CDT
Texas Data Centers Face Litigation Threats Over New Ride-Through Rules as a July 31 Ratepayer Deadline Nears
Texas regulators have imposed the first hard operating requirement on the data centers crowding onto the state grid, and the industry is weighing whether to fight it in court.
July 17, 2026 at 8:28 am CDT
Texas’s Data-Center Rules Race a Calendar as Abbott’s Ratepayer Memo Comes Due
Governor Greg Abbott's deadline for regulators to spell out how they will keep data-center costs off Texans' electric bills arrives Friday, but the state's push to rein in the industry is running into a problem it cannot regulate away: the calendar.
July 15, 2026 at 8:00 am CDT
Regulators Face July 17 Deadline to Tell Abbott How They Will Keep Data-Center Costs Off Texans’ Bills
Texas utility regulators have two days to answer the governor.
July 14, 2026 at 7:22 am CDT
Data-Center Growth adds to the Permian 765-kV Fight as Texas Regulators Near Decisions
As the Public Utility Commission of Texas approaches a cluster of routing decisions on the state's first 765-kilovolt transmission lines, the fight increasingly turns on a single question: whether the demand forecast for West Texas — driven largely by oil-and-gas electrification in the Permian Basin and, increasingly, by data centers — justifies stringing ultra-high-voltage lines across ranchland.
July 11, 2026 at 8:32 pm CDT
Meta Defends Corporate Resource Footprint in Formal Response to Texas House Water Probe
Tech giant Meta Platforms, Inc.