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July 12, 2026

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North Carolina Repeals Its Power Tax Break. Texas Never Had One to Lose.

38 data centers have secured lower-tier air permits from the TCEQ for onsite generation since 2024, collectively authorizing more than 2,100 backup diesel generators statewide without triggering mandatory public comment.

July 10, 2026

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430 Opposition Groups in a Year. The Ones Who Engage Early Still Break Ground.

Meanwhile TCEQ is reviewing Vantage's Federal Operating Permit for 32 diesel generators at Westover Hills, and WIRED documented how Stargate's 360 MW Abilene gas plant secured minor permits with minimal review.

July 9, 2026

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89% of New Power Requests Are Datacenters. Abbott Wants Guardrails.

At least 15 gas plants tied to data centers are planned statewide, permitted through TCEQ.

July 6, 2026

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The April Deadline Beats the Rulebook by Three Years

TCEQ handles air permits and behind-the-meter generation skips ERCOT approval, but rural counties unused to industrial emissions are pushing back.

June 13, 2026

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Hyperscalers Wire $200M Upfront as ERCOT's Queue Hits 438 GW

TCEQ hasn't finalized a permit pathway for treated produced water classification, which is the constraint and the opening.

June 6, 2026

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Meitner Is the Template. 430 GW of Applications Are About to Find Out.

Meanwhile, Meitner's air-cooling holds water use to domestic levels, CoolIT's validated 15 kW coldplate makes 45°C warm-water cooling viable across multiple AI generations, and JD Supra flags U.S. datacenter water use rising 170% by 2030 with TCEQ-and-water-district reuse rules varying county to county.

May 22, 2026

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Dallas Wins #1 Globally as Corpus Christi Shows the Real Constraint

In Fort Worth, Black Mountain bought 2,000+ acres in Parker County and secured TCEQ approval for five gas turbines after Weatherford's council declined to add data centers to its zoning code.

April 23, 2026

The resolutions went to Governor Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick, Sen. Perry, Rep. Darby, the PUC, TCEQ, ERCOT, and the Texas Water Development Board.

April 15, 2026

Risk: developers who don't proactively address water consumption and reporting will face permitting delays and political backlash as TCEQ and the Texas Legislature engage HARC's findings.

April 6, 2026

In Granbury, Hood County residents face a Tuesday public hearing on Bilateral Energy's 2,100-acre data center power plant, where TCEQ already approved air permits for eight simple-cycle turbines and 87 linear generators.

March 26, 2026

Fermi America secured final TCEQ approval for Project Matador near Amarillo, the agency's second-largest clean air permit authorizing 23.5 million tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions for the proposed 11 GW, 6,000-acre campus.

March 19, 2026

Fermi America plans to file a second 5 GW clean air permit with TCEQ for Project Matador near Amarillo, scaling the campus to roughly 17 GW total: 11 GW natural gas, 4.4 GW nuclear, plus solar and battery.

March 18, 2026

Kerwin called for mandatory public notice through TCEQ and PUC, plus an executive working group on water standards and ERCOT interconnection impacts.

March 14, 2026

The rejection is symbolic, not regulatory. Nightpeak can proceed without county incentives; the real choke points are interconnection queue status, TCEQ air quality permits, and water rights applications.

February 28, 2026

The transaction structure raises questions: the land is owned by Fort Worth-based Black Mountain, an energy conglomerate, and state records show "Fort Worth Power Core" (sharing Black Mountain's office address) holds active TCEQ air quality permits for the project across 10 counties.

February 26, 2026

TCEQ approved air quality permits for Fermi America's proposed datacenter power plant in Amarillo, denying contested case hearing requests from the Panhandle First Coalition on procedural standing grounds.

February 23, 2026

TCEQ is processing permits for gas projects up to 500 MW within a month, a velocity that raises questions about whether adequate review is occurring.

February 14, 2026

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) issued the country's largest air pollution permit to Pacifico Energy's 7.65 GW GW Ranch complex in Pecos County, authorizing up to 33 million tons per year of greenhouse gases, roughly 5% of Canada's total annual emissions.

February 12, 2026

The specific agency has not been confirmed, but likely candidates include the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality or the Texas Water Development Board.