July 27, 2026
Sen. Bettencourt Signals Tighter Rules as the $3.3B Break Hits Finance July 27The Texas Senate Finance Committee opens its review of the state's data center tax incentive July 27 in Austin.
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Austin, Texas is home to multiple large data centers and has become a major hub for cloud computing infrastructure due to its relatively affordable real estate, available fiber optic networks, and access to power from the ERCOT grid.
July 27, 2026
Sen. Bettencourt Signals Tighter Rules as the $3.3B Break Hits Finance July 27The Texas Senate Finance Committee opens its review of the state's data center tax incentive July 27 in Austin.
July 26, 2026
Sen. Huffman's January Bill Targets the Exemption That Built Fermi and StargateSpaceXAI is scouting 1 GW across Austin, Bastrop, and Conroe, per The Information, with job postings signaling active site work.
July 23, 2026
Georgia Lands OpenAI's $30B Bet While Texas Owns the Queue FixSpaceX AI is scouting gigawatt-scale sites across Austin, Bastrop, and Corona, per a Supermicro executive's June comment; no timeline is confirmed.
July 13, 2026
The Permit Was Never the Hard Part. The Neighbors Are.Fermi Inc.'s Project Matador near Austin is stacking gas, nuclear, solar, and storage for gigawatt-scale private generation, cla
May 21, 2026
Dallas, Austin, West Texas Sweep the Global Top ThreeCushman & Wakefield's latest global ranking puts Dallas first, Austin-San Antonio second, and West Texas third, with West Texas alone carrying 2.9 GW under construction, more than the entire EMEA region's 2.7 GW combined.
April 8, 2026
Texas Built Its Tax Break for Yesterday's Data Center MarketWilliamson County now anchors Central Texas's data center corridor, with 7,823 megawatts planned across the Austin-San Antonio region against just 1,154 megawatts operating.
March 25, 2026
Grimes County Has No Land-Use Plan. That's Every Developer's Problem Now.Elon Musk announced Terafab at Austin's Seaholm Power Plant, a $20-25 billion joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI targeting 100 to 200 million advanced AI chips annually.
March 21, 2026
Illinois and New York Are Closing. Texas Has a Window.Modular solar startup Exowatt is standing up an **11-acre campus with 48,000 square feet** of office, manufacturing, and warehouse space in Austin, targeting behind-the-meter power for AI workloads.
February 18, 2026
Texas Attracts Megawatts Faster Than It Can Write the Rules to Manage ThemPartner Accelsius, an Austin startup with $24 million in Series A funding, is contributing its two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling hardware.
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