Following Texas's data center boom -- energy demands, water use, economic impact, and communities navigating rapid tech expansion.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas is set to vote Sept. 11 on the permanent rule for connecting the state's largest new electricity users to the grid.
Three data center companies told a Senate committee Sept. 1 that they cool without fresh water and will pay for rural pipelines.
The agency that runs the electric grid for most of Texas told the market at 7:16 p.m. on Aug. 31 — the last hours of the day it had promised an answer — that it would not meet its own deadline for telling utilities which enormous new electricity customers make the first round of grid connections.
On the morning of Aug. 18, nineteen people were receiving dialysis at Childress Regional Medical Center.
On Sunday, Aug. 23, Texas homes and businesses drew 90,411 megawatts of electricity in a single hour — more than on any weekend day in the state’s history, and more than on any day ever recorded except one.
Meta launched a marketing campaign built around firsthand accounts from residents and small business owners in Fort Worth, Temple and El Paso, according to an Aug. 25 announcement from the company.
The clearest signal out of a nine-hour Texas House hearing on data centers Aug. 19 was not about a power line or a permit.
A developer building three gigawatt-scale AI data centers in West Texas told state lawmakers Aug. 18 that two of the sites cannot be reached by air.
Greenbelt Lake, the reservoir that supplies Childress and neighboring towns in the eastern Texas Panhandle, was 5.1 percent full on Aug. 20, according to Water Data for Texas, the reservoir monitoring service run by the Texas Water Development Board, the state agency that plans and finances water supply.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 18 that Bitdeer, CyrusOne, Ionic Digital and HIF will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers in Texas.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 18 that Riot Platforms and Comanche Circle Data Center will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers operating in Texas.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 18 that Power House Data Centers, CoreWeave and Emergent Data Centers will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers in Texas.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Aug. 18 that the Data Center Coalition, the data center sector’s membership coalition, will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers in Texas.
Governor Greg Abbott announced that New Era Energy & Digital, Switch and Hanwha will comply with the statewide standards and guidelines his office established for data centers, according to an Aug. 17 news release.