Following Texas's data center boom -- energy demands, water use, economic impact, and communities navigating rapid tech expansion.
As the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) prepares for a June 18 vote on a new grid-screening system known as "Batch Zero," a complex question remains regarding how new data centers will add power to the Texas grid rather than simply draining it.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) board of directors has approved a new data center rule that focuses on how these facilities behave once they are plugged into the state’s power grid.
Governor Greg Abbott directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to take immediate steps to protect residential electricity customers from the financial impacts of data center expansion in Texas.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) board of directors has endorsed a new large-load screening framework that is already reshaping which massive technology infrastructure projects will advance on the state's power grid.
A proposal for two East Texas counties to jointly study the effects of solar farms, data centers, and high-capacity water wells failed on a tied vote in Smith County Commissioners Court on June 2.
This week, the explosive expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud computing infrastructure across Texas emerged as a central point in economic and legislative debates.
The Sulphur Springs City Council voted Tuesday to change its agreements for a 3,000-megawatt data center project and phase out its current developer.
A Texas developer has filed a federal lawsuit against Hill County, asking a judge to strike down a one-year data center moratorium that county officials openly acknowledged they believed was illegal before voting to approve it.
A formal opinion request asking whether Texas counties have the legal authority to pause data center construction has been under review at the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) for more than three months.
The Blanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation District submitted a formal resolution to Texas lawmakers on May 13 requesting explicit legal authority to deny industrial water permits to data centers.