Texas AI Data Center Tracker
A running, dated record of what's happening as the AI data center boom reshapes Texas — grid strain, water use, land deals, and who's building where. Every entry links back to its original source. Updated as new stories break.
October 23, 2026
Morning Briefing: Texas Rangers Review Guadalupe County Judge's Dealings With a Proposed Data Center
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
The Texas Rangers are now reviewing a Guadalupe County judge accused of weighing in on the Palomino Alpha data center while owning a piece of its land, the same week TCEQ quietly suspended 17 stormwater approvals and Vistra shed nearly 10% in a day with Austin's audit still unresolved.
October 22, 2026
Morning Briefing: TCEQ Pulls the Plug on Its Online Permit System After Data Center Approvals Slip Through the Pause
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
A month into Abbott's pause, TCEQ couldn't stop its own automated approvals and shut STEERS down Wednesday, putting every industry on paper filing, while Kinder Morgan committed $4.2 billion to a 434-mile gas line for one unnamed hyperscaler's power plants, due online in 2030.
October 21, 2026
Morning Briefing: TCEQ Tells Abbott Data Center Permits Are "Paused," but Bastrop Stormwater Coverage Still Shows Active
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
TCEQ's Oct. 19 letter, made public Tuesday, says permits are 'paused' while EdgeConneX's Bastrop stormwater coverage still reads 'active,' and that same day a HARC study warned that the bring-your-own-gas power Abbott has been promoting could push Texas NOx 136% higher by 2031.
October 20, 2026
Morning Briefing: Watchdogs Count 35 TCEQ Permitting Actions Since Abbott's Data Center Pause; State Says None Were Approvals
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Abbott's office insists 'no permits have been approved,' and that can be technically true while TCEQ expedites eight October gas-plant applications and grants stormwater coverage that lets crews start grading, which makes the pause look stricter on paper than it is in practice.
October 19, 2026
Morning Briefing: Abbott Raised About $9 Million From Data Center-Related Donors, Tribune Analysis Finds
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Abbott's biggest monthly haul from data center-linked donors, $2.8 million, came right after he paused their grid connections, and a weekend that also turned up a Collin County well approved before any building filing and a 1.3 GW Bastrop gas plant on a no-comment permit suggests the industry's real leverage sits in the approvals the pause doesn't touch.
October 16, 2026
Morning Briefing: Paxton Sends Water-Use Letters to 156 Data Center Developments in More Than 30 Counties
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Paxton put 156 data center developments on notice over skipped water surveys, but with a $500 maximum fine, no power to prosecute without a local DA, and no way to pull permits already issued, the letters carry more election-season weight than legal force for now.
October 15, 2026
Morning Briefing: Denton Votes 4-0 to Make Every New Data Center Get a Council Permit
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Denton's 4-0 vote means no data center can be built in the city without its own council vote, and it comes the same week Abbott said local control can wait for the 2027 session and a week after city staff turned away an application that didn't meet intake rules.
October 14, 2026
Morning Briefing: Hood County Rejects Sailfish's Settlement and Permit Appeal, and the Developer Says He's Headed to Court
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Offered a smaller Comanche Circle with promises nobody could enforce, or a lawsuit, Hood County took the lawsuit, voting 3-1 against the settlement and unanimously against the permit appeal, and it tied both votes to the drainage, power and water information Sailfish never filed, which will hold up in court better than a straight no.
October 13, 2026
Morning Briefing: Hood County Takes Up Comanche Circle Today With Lawsuits Threatened Either Way
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Comanche Circle's developer put it in writing that he'll take 1,375 acres with conditions or sue and build 83% bigger with none, and Protect the Paluxy Valley says it sues if commissioners say yes, so Hood County's five-member court walks into this morning's 9 a.m. hearing with a lawsuit waiting on either side of the vote.
October 12, 2026
Morning Briefing: A $15 Billion Data Center Campus Turned Up in Hudspeth County Before Anyone Told the County
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Hudspeth County's judge found out about a $15 billion, 24,000-acre campus from rumors and got an apology on site, and the same week Taylor traded its planning commission's 90-day pause for $28.2 million and a negotiated contract; in both cases, a town without its own rules ended up responding to terms the developer had already set.
October 8, 2026
Morning Briefing: Granbury's Mayor and Two Council Members Are the Plaintiffs Suing to Stop Their Own Recall
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Yesterday's unnamed client turns out to be the mayor, the mayor pro tem and a councilman, who filed suit 30 minutes before their own meeting and then let it adjourn without mentioning their names were on it; for officials recalled over what they didn't disclose about a 2,200-acre annexation, that wasn't a good look.
October 7, 2026
Morning Briefing: Granbury Puts Its Recall Election on Hold After a Lawyer With an Unnamed Client Says He's Suing
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Granbury residents gathered 1,300 signatures and won in a state appeals court, and the recall still got stopped Tuesday by a Houston lawyer who won't say who hired him; a day earlier the PUC sued to keep secret even which county a data center sits in, so in both fights the thing being guarded is the basic who and where.
October 6, 2026
Morning Briefing: Killeen Reverses Its Conditional-Use Permit Rule for Data Centers, 6-1, During a Workshop
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Killeen's council voted 6-1 Monday to drop the CUP requirement it adopted for data centers in September, with the vote taken during what was listed as a workshop; the same day, Skybox said it won't know its Hutto power allocation until 2028, and in Seoul the finance minister told lawmakers the Encinal plant meets the commercial-viability test, though Texas still hasn't issued its air permit.
October 5, 2026
Morning Briefing: Lufkin Emails Show TCEQ Pointing Amp Z's Power Plant Just Under a Federal Review Threshold
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Saturday's Lufkin emails show TCEQ asking Amp Z's developer whether its 600-MW plant could come in under 249.99 tons a year, which kept it out of federal review, and the developer got there by trimming one operating hour a year, an hour the final permit still allows; by Sunday, Amazon was promising transparency and Fort Worth was counting its data center tax revenue.
October 2, 2026
Morning Briefing: Washington and Seoul Pick a $22.3 Billion Gas Plant in Encinal to Power a 5-GW Data Center Campus
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Washington and Seoul picked a $22.3 billion, 6.47-GW Encinal gas plant as the showcase for Abbott's bring-your-own-power rule, and the same week Chevron's 2.67-GW Kilby, which follows that same model, said Abbott's own permit freeze may push its investment decision into 2027, so the governor's preferred kind of project is now among the ones his freeze is slowing.
October 1, 2026
Morning Briefing: Archer County Takes Aim at the Permits Behind Google's Wichita Falls-Area Campus
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Archer County admits it can't stop a single TCEQ permit for Google's Wichita Falls-area campus, so on Monday it passed two resolutions anyway, one against 95,000 gallons a day of wastewater that could reach Lake Wichita and one against a concrete plant TCEQ had already approved, citing Abbott's own freeze as backing; on Wednesday the U.S. Senate came up three votes short on the ratepayer bill, leaving the cost question to Austin in January.
September 30, 2026
Morning Briefing: An Austin Lawsuit Tests How Far "Trade Secret" Can Hide a Data Center's Water Use
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
The attorney general told Austin to release Tesla's data center water records, and Save Our Springs says the city answered with 15 pages that are almost all black ink, so it's suing; meanwhile Granbury's mayor said he won't resign at a recall meeting dozens of residents walked out of, over a 2,200-acre annexation that now has Project Patriot's concept plans on it, and Abbott spent Tuesday in Hemphill telling data centers to bring their own power while two Angelina County projects sit frozen.
September 29, 2026
Morning Briefing: Denton Moves to Put Every Future Data Center Before the Council
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Denton's planners voted 5-0 last week to make every future data center earn a council vote, a power Texas counties still don't have, and Monday's news showed the workaround: landowners near Uhland petitioned a 900-acre PowerHouse site out of city reach and into Caldwell County, while Paxton told a Fort Worth audience he's for local control but still hasn't answered Hood County's seven-month-old request asking whether it can have any.
September 28, 2026
Morning Briefing: Westlake's Circle T Restraining Order Is Gone, but the Keller Lawsuit Isn't
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
A Fort Worth judge lifted the restraining order that had frozen Westlake's Circle T vote for six weeks on Friday, but Westlake still faces an Oct. 23 standing hearing and a statewide permit freeze, and by Monday the Panhandle had lined up a FERC pipeline request for Google, a turbine crew for Fermi and an Xcel tariff meant to keep ratepayers from covering any of it.
September 25, 2026
Morning Briefing: Paxton Opens a Statewide Probe of Data Centers That Skipped the Water Survey
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Texas AG Ken Paxton opened a probe into hundreds of data centers in 18 counties, including Dallas and Tarrant, that skipped the state water-use survey.
September 24, 2026
Morning Briefing: Dallas and Lubbock Join the Local-Pause Wave
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Five Dallas council members want a hyperscale moratorium hearing in a city where data centers can still open by right with no hearing at all, Lubbock voted to start its own 90-day pause, and the governor's permit freeze has already produced its first loophole test: SpaceX's Terafab, pitched to Grimes County as a data center, now calls itself a chip plant.
September 23, 2026
Morning Briefing: Data Centers Harden Into a Top-Tier Issue in Texas's Governor's and Senate Races
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
CNBC confirmed data centers are now a top-tier issue in a governor's race Abbott leads by just 2.2 points — with 57% of Texans opposing one in their own community — as Denton drew a unanimous crowd for its 90-day moratorium, Fort Worth scheduled its own, and Google and Crusoe's Panhandle site showed the math driving the backlash: 7,500 construction workers, about 50 permanent jobs.
September 23, 2026
Speed of Light: Can Photonics Ease the AI Data Center Power Crunch?
Power Grab TX (editorial)
NVIDIA's co-packaged optics switches — claiming 3.5x better power efficiency than pluggable optics — are now shipping, and the indium phosphide lasers behind them are made at Coherent's CHIPS-funded Sherman fab, but history says efficiency gains get spent on bigger clusters rather than shrinking ERCOT's 474-GW queue.
September 22, 2026
Morning Briefing: Abbott Halts Every Data Center Permit in Texas, Not Just Grid Connections
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Abbott finally shut the behind-the-meter door, freezing every TCEQ permit a data center seeks until the ERCOT and water audits are done — the same day environmental groups sued Vantage and VoltaGrid for permitting 405 MW of San Antonio gas plants as "minor" sources, and days after the PUC quietly dropped its $50,000-per-MW interconnection fee.
September 21, 2026
Morning Briefing: "60 Minutes" Puts Red Oak and Hood County at the Center of the National Data-Center Backlash
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
60 Minutes gave Ellis and Hood counties their national TV debut this weekend, and the twist was Amazon Web Services quietly folding its Hood County bid rather than budge on a 90% property-tax rebate — even as Dallas Morning News data confirmed D-FW's pipeline is still racing toward 85 GW and a state senator previewed hundreds of new data-center bills for the next legislative session.
September 18, 2026
Morning Briefing: Paxton Investigates Whether a Data Center Is Being Built on Land Promised as a Future Park
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Attorney General Ken Paxton opened an investigation into whether a Taylor AI data center is being built on land once promised to Williamson County as a future park, landing the same week Dallas's GDT sold to UK-based Softcat for $1.05 billion and Ireland's H&MV Engineering pledged 1,000 new Dallas-area jobs — three fresh reminders that legal risk and real money are both accelerating around Texas data centers at once.
September 17, 2026
Morning Briefing: Cipher's Stock Jumps After an ERCOT Batch Zero Classification — With a $10M Water Pledge Attached
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Cipher Digital's stock jumped 14% the moment ERCOT's Batch Zero process turned into a real, named-site classification — and the company paired it with a $10 million water-infrastructure pledge to Colorado City alongside Anthropic and FluidStack, even as $1.2 billion in new DFW data center filings and an unannounced 'permitted by right' facility in southeast Dallas showed how far ahead of the state's audit and zoning fights the industry keeps moving.
September 16, 2026
Morning Briefing: Lt. Gov. Forces ERCOT to Scrap CEO Pablo Vegas's Pay Contract Hours After the Board Approved It
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Dan Patrick made ERCOT scrap CEO Pablo Vegas's $6.4 million pay contract hours after the board approved it, citing ratepayer bills — landing the same week Dallas Morning News reporting showed Texas has no real way to count how many jobs its data centers create, even as Collin County starts drafting the noise rules its unincorporated areas have never had.
September 15, 2026
Morning Briefing: Abbott Orders Criminal and Civil Penalties for Data Centers That Dodge Water Reporting
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Abbott gave the water fight real teeth — criminal misdemeanors and TCEQ permit blocks for data centers that skip their water-use survey — on the same day ERCOT put its first hard number on Batch Zero (362 projects, 191.8 GW) and a Dallas Morning News deep dive laid out exactly why Texas counties keep losing these fights: they simply don't have the zoning power cities do.
September 14, 2026
Morning Briefing: ERCOT Tells Data Centers: Prove It Under Oath, or Lose Your Spot
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
ERCOT spent the weekend demanding notarized proof from the data centers at the front of its interconnection line while Friday's PUC vote came into focus — one 765kV line approved, two more sent back to the judges — as Hood County opened a TCEQ comment fight over the Knox Ranch gas plant and Temple's Rowan campus confirmed its $4.2 billion ceiling ahead of a Sept. 17 zoning vote.
September 11, 2026
Morning Briefing: Texas Regulators Set to Vote Today on What Data Centers Must Pay to Plug In
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Texas regulators spent the day deciding what data centers must pay and disclose to plug into the grid, the same day Amazon walked Boling residents through the water and power math on its $10 billion Wharton County campus.
September 10, 2026
Morning Briefing: The Data Center Backlash Reaches the Ballot Box
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
KERA caught Hood County conservatives breaking with the GOP over Abbott's handling of the data-center boom the same day a Tarrant County commissioner floated writing state rules into the 2027 legislative session, while a new Dallas-area joint venture and fresh Amazon and Anthropic filings showed the money isn't waiting around for either one.
September 9, 2026
Morning Briefing: Prosper's Project Tomahawk Is Dead — Developer Withdraws Before the Council Vote
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
White Rose Partners walked away from Prosper's $580 million Project Tomahawk the same day Galaxy Digital disclosed 4.2 GW of newly classified Texas data-center capacity, Lubbock's City Council voted to hold off on large-scale data centers of its own, and Hood County punted its Comanche Circle decision to October while NRG quietly dropped the gas plant that was supposed to power it.
September 8, 2026
Morning Briefing: IREN's Sweetwater Hub Wins Texas's First Public Batch Zero Base-Load Call
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
IREN's Sweetwater hub picked up the state's first public ERCOT Batch Zero base-load classification the same morning a court hearing on Westlake's contested Circle T data center was postponed, an appeals court pushed Granbury toward an actual recall vote over Project Patriot, and Hood County took up its own data-center fight near Dinosaur Valley State Park.
September 7, 2026
Morning Briefing: ERCOT Puts a Date and a Dollar Figure on Abbott's Data-Center Freeze
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
ERCOT finally put a number on Abbott's audit — December 10, up to $8 billion at risk — the same day Temple proved a city can approve a $4.2 billion campus and pass real zoning teeth in one meeting, while Taylor's Project Mustang answered that by simply dropping its annexation bid and building where no one's zoning applies at all.
September 5, 2026
Morning Briefing: Red Oak Residents Sue Their Own City Over a Data-Center Rezoning
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
A Red Oak lawsuit accusing the city of an NDA-shielded, notice-skipping rezoning turned this week's opposition talk into an actual court filing, the same week Black Mountain's 138-million-gallon Parker County water request tripped the groundwater district's new high-volume study rule that's about to cost the company a year it clearly wasn't planning on.
September 4, 2026
Morning Briefing: Fort Worth's Data-Center Referees Take the Field
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Fort Worth's new data-center commission clocked in for its first day of work the same week Wall Street started marking down Vistra and NRG on the state's own grid freeze, while Black Mountain's tabled Fort Worth rezoning and Edged's withdrawn tax break show two live fights the new commission inherits before it's written a single recommendation.
September 3, 2026
Morning Briefing: Texas Republicans Break With Trump, Turn Against Data Centers Ahead of November
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Reuters caught Abbott and Paxton both reversing course on the industry they spent a year courting, and the detail that gives it teeth is timing — the governor's grid-connection freeze conveniently lifts the day after his own re-election is decided.
September 2, 2026
Morning Briefing: Texas Data Centers Face Possible Criminal Charges Over Water-Use Silence, Senate Told
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
A Texas Senate hearing revealed only 97 of 324 known data centers bothered to answer the state's water-use inquiry — with criminal charges now on the table for the rest — the same day Prosper's own commission reversed its staff and voted 7-0 against the $580 million project this briefing watched get a staff green light just yesterday.
September 1, 2026
Morning Briefing: Anthropic's $35B Lambda Deal Puts a Bitcoin Miner's South Texas Campus in the Spotlight
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Anthropic's $35 billion Lambda deal put a bitcoin-miner-turned-neocloud's South Texas campus on the map the same morning Reuters revealed the state's grid-connection requests have grown tenfold since 2023 to over 474 GW, while Prosper's staff quietly recommended approving a data center rezoning that a neighboring town is now publicly asking to have a say in.
August 31, 2026
Morning Briefing: Westlake's Circle T Injunction Fight Is Still Unresolved — TRO Now Runs Through Sept. 8
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
A Tarrant County judge let Westlake's Circle T restraining order run another two weeks instead of ruling on it, while CNN and Fast Company turned Abbott's audit into a national midterm story built on a queue number — 1,800 projects — that's roughly six times the roughly 300 actually under review.
August 28, 2026
Morning Briefing: Granbury Reverses Course, Will Finally Send Recall Petitions Over Project Patriot to Council
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Granbury needed a state appeals court to make its own city council accept recall petitions it had already rejected once, while a fresh review of Abbott's data-center audit shows the pause skips confidential surveys, on-site power plants, and every project under 75 megawatts — prompting even his own agriculture commissioner to call it all hat and no cattle.
August 27, 2026
Morning Briefing: Austin Votes to Begin Banning Hyperscale Data Centers Citywide
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Austin voted today to start banning hyperscale data centers outright, not just regulate them — landing the same day EdgeConneX, Anthropic, and a Permian gas-engine developer all filed for more Central Texas capacity, so the industry clearly isn't waiting around to see how the politics shake out.
August 26, 2026
Residents rally as court considers temporary restraining order fate in Westlake data center fight
WFAA
With Judge Kimberly Fitzpatrick's 14-day TRO set to expire, Keller and Marshall Ridge residents rallied outside the Tarrant County courthouse as the 342nd District Court weighed converting it into a full injunction against Westlake's Circle T project — the same fight that already forced the town council to table its vote on PowerHouse Data Centers' $914,000 development deal.
August 26, 2026
Morning Briefing: BloombergNEF Puts a Price Tag on the Audit: $15 Billion and Counting
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
BloombergNEF just put a real number on the audit's cost — up to $15 billion and 49.8 GW delayed — and Big Tech is applauding it anyway, while two separate ALJ panels are now finding Oncor skipped notice to thousands of landowners on the same 765-kV lines everyone agrees the grid needs.
August 25, 2026
Morning Briefing: New Data Reveals Texas's Dozen Biggest Gas Plants Exist for One Customer: AI
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
Global Energy Monitor's new tracker confirms Texas's 12 largest gas plants — some pegged at 24 million tons of CO2 a year apiece — exist solely to run AI data centers, while Hood County is still waiting on the zoning opinion Paxton's office promised months ago, now six months overdue and counting.
August 24, 2026
Morning Briefing: Regulators Warn Texas's Data-Center Freeze Could Trigger the Blackouts It's Trying to Prevent
Power Grab TX (internal briefing)
SOAH's recommendation to kill one leg of the 765-kV buildout and an oil-and-gas-to-manufacturing coalition letter warning of blackouts both landed the same week Paxton and Talarico rolled out dueling data-center plans — the audit that was supposed to cool this down is instead giving every side in two statewide races something new to point at.
August 13, 2026
The Biggest Polluter: Amazon's Pecos County Gas Plant Could Out-Emit Every Power Plant in America
Power Grab TX (editorial)
TCEQ's air permit for Amazon's 35-turbine, 7.65-GW Pecos County plant authorizes up to 33 million tons of CO2 a year — nearly double the country's current largest polluter — and because the campus is behind-the-meter and never touches ERCOT, it sails right past the interconnection freeze meant to slow this whole boom down.
August 10, 2026
Everything’s bigger in Texas: Musk’s planned $16.8 billion chip factory is five times bigger than the world’s current largest building
Yahoo Finance
Elon Musk is betting that the next phase of his sprawling technology empire will require a building on a scale that has never existed before. SpaceX and Tesla are building Terafab, a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor manufacturing facility in Grimes County, Texas, more than five times the size of the world's largest building.
August 10, 2026
The Nuclear Bet: Texas Wagers on Unproven Reactors to Power the AI Boom
Power Grab TX (editorial)
Six small nuclear projects — Last Energy near Abilene, Natura Resources at Abilene Christian, Aalo Atomics in Austin, Blue Energy/Crusoe at Port of Victoria, X-energy/Dow at Seadrift, and the nuclear leg of Fermi America's Project Matador — are all racing to power AI data centers, but zero SMRs have reached commercial operation anywhere in the U.S. and the same governor courting the reactors fought a West Texas spent-fuel storage license back in 2020.
August 9, 2026
In the Dark by Design: Texas Can't Manage What AI Data Centers Won't Disclose
Power Grab TX (editorial)
Our own take on the disclosure gap driving this whole story: 341 data centers, only 17% responding to a legally required water survey, and a payday-lending statute in Bexar County now being stretched to hide commercial water use from public records.
August 6, 2026
Texas Data Centers Suffer Brutal Collision With Reality
Futurism
Texas is tripling down on the construction of AI Data Centers, at any cost, but there is a glaring problem that is grinding construction plans to a halt: a woefully inadequate power grid that won’t be able to support all of these new facilities.
July 15, 2026
Valero, Citgo and LyondellBassell, versus Corpus Christi in water dispute
Power Grab TX - Briefing
Current state: the industry coalition (Valero, Citgo, LyondellBasell, under Affordable Water for Corpus Christi is seeking an ~$80 million refund. PUC staff recommended only $6 million, and the companies' settlement offer of $4 million was rejected by the city. So it's headed to a full hearing where an administrative law judge will hear both sides and issue a recommendation — but the actual decision rests with the Public Utility Commission of Texas, not the judge. No ruling yet as of the latest reporting (July 13–15, 2026).
July 9, 2026
Planned Texas data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than many countries
The Texas Tribune
An AI Data Center in you back yard, a cautionary warning foe everybody.
July 3, 2026
Gov. Greg Abbott doubles down on limitations on Texas data centers
El Paso Times
Flip flopping seems to be the flavor of the month, Is Gov. Abbot up for reelection?
July 2, 2026
Proposed Texas AI power plants could emit 287 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, report says
KERA News
Worth watching whether this shifts the water/reliability debate toward an emissions angle too.
June 27, 2026
Texas Stargate AI site saw 14 emergency calls, broken legs, and water called 'a luxury'
Yahoo News
Construction-phase safety concerns at the Abilene Stargate site — separate issue from the grid capacity debate, but part of the same growth story.
June 22, 2026
Powering the next wave of AI: Expanding capacity with our new datacenter in Pecos
Microsoft (official announcement)
Described by Microsoft as one of its largest single capacity additions — exact MW not yet public.
June 19, 2026
Meta signs 1.6 gigawatt AI compute deals with Crusoe Energy across Texas and Missouri
Crypto Briefing (citing Bloomberg)
1.6 GW is combined across two states — the Texas-only share isn't broken out yet.
June 18, 2026
Texas Tackles AI Power Demand With New Data Center Grid Rules
Bloomberg Government
A direct regulatory response to the interconnection queue backlog — worth a closer read on the actual rule text.
June 16, 2026
Nvidia's Huang pledges AI will boost manufacturing jobs. A test will come in Texas
AP News
Time will tell if this in fact the case or 'smoke and mirrors' to allay the public's fear.