West Texas Is Getting $100 Billion in Data Centers and Two of the Sites Have No Air Service
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.
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.
The pension fund covering Texas public school teachers is no longer actuarially sound, and the reason is the teacher pay raise lawmakers passed last year.
The state office distributing more than $5 billion in broadband money arrived at the Capitol on Aug. 18 with two fired directors behind it, a state auditor's investigation ahead of it and a new manager who did not defend the record.
Corpus Christi has asked state environmental regulators for emergency permission to stop sending water down the Nueces River to the bays, days after the rains that rescued its water supply also triggered the legal obligation to release it.
Washington is pulling back from basic science, and a Texas university president told House members Aug. 18 that the state should be prepared to take the field.
Travis County District Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel ruled twice on Aug. 13, and both times she said no.
A woman who once worked in Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller's office walked into a Texas House hearing Aug. 18 with a dollar figure for the state's disaster relief fund and asked members why so little of it reached ranchers.
In July, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker told every state agency to build its next budget request around a 3 percent cut to general revenue.
Texas has awarded roughly 15,000 education savings accounts to families earning between two and five times the federal poverty level, moving the state's new school choice program into the middle of the income scale for the first time since it began paying out in July.