September 22, 2026
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Gov. Abbott Ties Noncompliance to Denial of Grid Connection
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San Antonio, TX
San Antonio, Texas hosts multiple data center facilities and is served by reliable power infrastructure from CPS Energy, the city's municipally-owned utility.
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August 8, 2026
Skybox, Digital Realty, Mara, Montera Sign Binding Pledges to Gov. AbbottSan Antonio council members requested a special meeting by Aug. 31 to consider a temporary moratorium.
July 27, 2026
Sen. Bettencourt Signals Tighter Rules as the $3.3B Break Hits Finance July 27Vantage Data Centers and VoltaGrid face a 60-day notice of intent to sue from Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, and Public Citizen over two San Antonio sites.
July 10, 2026
430 Opposition Groups in a Year. The Ones Who Engage Early Still Break Ground.In San Antonio, District 6 Councilmember Ric Galvan put actual impact in perspective: all San Antonio data centers together consume less than 0.3% of the city's water supply.
June 26, 2026
Five Tests Now Separate Real Load From Speculation in TexasMicrosoft, separately, claims fleet-wide water positivity in 2025, cutting WUE to 0.27 L/kWh, with San Antonio facilities running 79% recycled or non-potable water.
June 22, 2026
ERCOT Studies Big Loads in Batches Now. The Queue Math Just Changed.Vantage's 1.4GW Shackelford County campus, Crusoe's Abilene build, QTS in Dallas, and Microsoft's San Antonio development all sit in that 75MW+ bracket.
May 11, 2026
Recycled Water Is the Texas Permit Edge. San Antonio Just Proved It.The finding lands the same week San Antonio's CPS Energy showed how disciplined large-load policy can move the other direction: water consumption at just 0.1% of municipal supply, with 75% sourced from recycled wastewater.
May 10, 2026
Sequencing Beats Vision: Why Fermi's $19B Pitch Couldn't Land a Single TenantSan Antonio offers the constructive counter-model.
April 9, 2026
Nine Months to Shape the Rules Texas Is About to WriteCommunity opposition is coalescing in coordinated fashion: a San Antonio convening called "Texas Data Center Rebellion" brought organizers from El Paso, Taylor, Amarillo, San Antonio, and DFW.
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.
April 1, 2026
Utilities Waited. SoftBank, Google, and the Army Didn't.Meanwhile, Central Texas's corridor from Temple to San Antonio now carries 7,823 MW of planned capacity against just 1,154 MW operating, with 96% of construction pre-leased.
March 31, 2026
Texas's $25M Queue Fee Separates Serious Developers From Everyone ElseAmazon filed plans for three San Antonio facilities totaling over 370,000 square feet and $65 million, while Meta boosted its El Paso commitment to $10 billion targeting 1 GW by 2028.
March 16, 2026
"Bring Your Own Power, Water Plan, and Community Deal"HIVE Digital Technologies, a San Antonio-based company executing its AI compute growth in Manitoba and British Columbia rather than Texas, scaling from 4 MW to 16.6 MW of liquid-cooled GPU capacity through a Bell Canada partnership.
March 8, 2026
Opacity Is the Moratorium Movement's Best Recruitment ToolSan Antonio's 59-Project Pipeline Exposes the Texas Capacity Question
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