Following Texas's data center boom -- energy demands, water use, economic impact, and communities navigating rapid tech expansion.
The numbers sound almost implausible: more than 400 gigawatts of prospective new electricity users are asking to connect to the Texas grid — roughly four times the state's all-time current demand — and the vast majority are data centers.
Texas' effort to control who pays for the power that data centers demand reaches two hard markers this month.
Texas is learning to adjust quickly to rapid population growth and increasingly frequent extreme weather.
One of the largest single data-center projects yet planned in Texas is approaching an operational milestone in a rural county west of Fort Worth.
A new statewide survey finds that a majority of Texas voters do not want a data center built in their own community, a result that lands as the state races to become the country's largest market for the AI and crypto facilities.
In much of Texas, a data center can sink a well and pump as much groundwater as it wants, and no state agency is empowered to stop it.
Organizers in Northeast El Paso have filed a formal notice to recall City Representative Cynthia Boyar Trejo.
The Fort Worth City Council is scheduled to take final rezoning votes on a proposed $10 billion data center campus on June 23, 2026.
As Texas moves forward on the 765-kilovolt transmission expansion estimated at more than $33 billion, state utility regulators are reworking the rules that determine which customers pay for the new infrastructure.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has published the initial legally binding paperwork required for large-volume power developers to secure a position in its upcoming "Batch Zero" grid-connection study.