Texas

September 21, 2026

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Vegas Won't Sign the $6.4M ERCOT Deal After Lt. Gov. Patrick's Call

August 10, 2026

Trump framed the industry as "tremendously important for the economics" and said it "could be bigger than oil" for Texas.

August 6, 2026

Texas alone accounts for a substantial share of the national queue pressure, with proposed facilities mapped against stressed transmission zones.

August 1, 2026

Enverus projects 62 GW of new datacenter capacity deploys off-grid through 2030, drawing $5 trillion in behind-the-meter gas investment, with more than 80% landing in Texas, PJM, and the West.

July 27, 2026

On July 18, organizers staged 142 demonstrations across 42 states, 18 in Texas alone, spanning Tea Party conservatives, environmental groups, split labor, and religious institutions.

July 24, 2026

The DOE's draft 2026 National Transmission Needs Study names AI data centers as the dominant driver of U.S. electricity demand growth, and Texas is building for it.

July 12, 2026

Texas has done neither.

July 5, 2026

The contrast still favors Texas.

July 2, 2026

Valar joined litigation with Texas and Utah against the NRC, arguing microreactor licensing authority belongs to the states.

June 30, 2026

Texas is now the test case for whether local governments can stop data centers at all.

June 29, 2026

Four data centers are already under construction above the Ogallala in Texas and Wyoming, where groundwater has fallen more than 200 feet beyond recharge in places.

June 28, 2026

Texas's edge is predictable state-level rules under ERCOT and the PUCT, but that edge is conditional.

June 23, 2026

Nvidia's 45°C cooling rewrites the site-selection map for water-stressed Texas.

June 21, 2026

Texas carries 6.5 GW of datacenter capacity under construction, roughly a fifth of the national pipeline, and ERCOT's large-load queue jumped 270% in 2025 to 226 GW, with 73% from datacenters.

June 16, 2026

Texas developers should expect Abbott's cost-shift order to push more projects toward self-supply, but Ross versus Lacy Lakeview shows what happens when secrecy meets community proximity.

June 7, 2026

CEO Bob Frenzel signaled more deals coming in Colorado and Texas.

June 4, 2026

Erin Brockovich's crowdsourced map crossed 2,716 community reports with Texas leading the dataset.

May 26, 2026

University of Texas at Austin research projects data centers could consume up to 9% of Texas's water supply by 2040, against roughly 1% today.

May 25, 2026

Texas tops Labrynth's new 50-state Data Center Readiness Index, with Oregon, Illinois, and Florida rounding out the top four across nine dimensions including grid reliability, interconnection, permitting, and water supply.

May 5, 2026

NERC documented multiple events in 2024 and 2025 where more than 1 GW of computational load dropped simultaneously, on the East Coast and in Texas, with no utility planning model catching it.

May 3, 2026

Behind the deal sits a structural reality: ERCOT's large-load queue swelled from roughly 63 GW at end-2024 to about 410 GW by early 2026, with 73-87% from datacenters, against an all-time Texas peak of ~85 GW.

April 24, 2026

The American Farm Bureau Federation notes Texas ranks second nationally with 546 active or under-construction facilities behind Virginia's 706, with Goldman Sachs projecting a 10.4 GW supply gap persisting into 2028.

April 16, 2026

Developers operating where rules already exist, including Texas with its ERCOT and PUC processes, hold a structural advantage that widens with each statehouse pause.

April 15, 2026

A new HARC report reveals that Texas's 464 data centers consume approximately 25 billion gallons of water annually (0.4% of statewide use), but projections swing wildly: 29 billion to 161 billion gallons by 2030 depending on cooling technology choices.

April 8, 2026

The state leads the nation with 300 operating data centers and 142 under construction, but that dominance was built partly on an incentive structure legislators now call "unsustainable."

April 4, 2026

Meanwhile, Texas has become the proving ground for how that model gets regulated.

March 16, 2026

JLL specifically names Texas and Ireland as markets where "bring your own power" mandates are forcing operators to become energy developers.

March 11, 2026

Texas doesn't have that reassurance yet.

March 8, 2026

A 6 GW-plus pipeline across Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Nevada, and Pennsylvania positions PowerHouse as a national player.

February 27, 2026

Texas is pulling away from Northern Virginia as the datacenter capital of North America, with 6.5 GW under construction and 22 GW slated for deployment, but the sprint is already stumbling: six Texas projects are delayed and the industry faces a 30-50% slippage rate on scheduled 2026 deliveries.

February 24, 2026

Texas is the geographic pivot: JLL projects the state could surpass Northern Virginia as North America's top datacenter market by 2030, with 6.5 GW currently under construction representing one-fifth of all U.S. pipeline additions last year.

February 19, 2026

Texas is on track to overtake Northern Virginia as the world's largest data center market by 2030, with 6.5 GW under construction and a structural shift in site selection now driven almost entirely by power availability.