https://texasaidocket.com/2026-08-14T00:00:00Zhttps://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0026/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Temple Planning and Zoning Commission has three data center items on its August 17th, 2026 agenda. The central one is a set of proposed Unified Development Code amendments. They would require a Conditional Use Permit for any future data center, even in districts where data centers are already allowed. The city says the change would add a public review step and let Temple attach project specific conditions, technical studies and supporting documentation before a project moves forward. A second item is zoning for a subsequent building in Rowan Digital Infrastructure's first phase at Synergy Industrial Park, which the developer calls Lasso. Temple's own data center hub states that domestic water use for Project Temple is contractually capped at 4,000 gallons per day. It also states that projects under this framework would have to use closed-loop cooling.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0027/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The City of Taylor published a public notice that its City Council would consider an Amended and Restated Tax Abatement Agreement with Compal Technology, Inc. and PDC TP 01 LOT A LLC at the regularly scheduled meeting on August 13th, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. The property sits in Reinvestment Zone No. 11, which the city calls the Taylor Port Zone. The notice describes the improvements as the renovation of the Taylor Port Building. It covers the design and manufacture of electronics and related items at an estimated cost of approximately $ 200 Million. Compal already holds a separate Chapter 312 abatement from Williamson County for a server service center in Georgetown. The same contract manufacturer is now the subject of incentive agreements at two levels of Central Texas government. The August 13th vote has not been confirmed against a published minute.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0028/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Hays County Commissioners Court approved a resolution on June 23rd, 2026 establishing a 180-day emergency water protection review period for high water use development applications, including data centers. The same resolution creates a review board that evaluates those proposals and advises the court. Commissioners voted unanimously. The county has been operating under drought conditions and water use restrictions tied to declining aquifer levels, which is the stated reason for the measure. This is the counter-image to the incentive votes elsewhere in Central Texas, since a county here chose to slow its own review rather than speed it up.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0029/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Williamson County Commissioners Court approved a Chapter 312 tax abatement incentive agreement for Compal USA Technology Inc. on April 15th, 2026. The county described the project as a server service center on approximately 33 acres at 1800 Aviation Drive in Georgetown. It is to support enterprise and cloud infrastructure needs, general warehousing and other work in the electronics, technology and medical device industries. Chapter 312 agreements are performance based, so the county does not grant the abatement until the company meets the required measures. The agreement sets a minimum capital investment of $35 million and requires no fewer than 100 full-time employees within three years. If the terms are met the county abates 30% of assessed value for 10 consecutive years, an estimated $526,010 over that period. The City of Georgetown approved its own incentives for Compal on December 9th, 2025.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0030/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Austin City Council approved Ordinance No. 20260423-029 on April 23rd, 2026. It adds a new Chapter 2-19 to Title 2 of the city code, covering how any city department adopts, acquires, deploys, uses and reviews surveillance technology. The ordinance followed Resolution No. 20260205-061 of February 5th, 2026, which directed the City Manager to return to Council with a rule on the city's own use of that technology. The council file records no fiscal impact. Reporting has described the ordinance as banning facial recognition and restricting AI and machine learning tools. That language has not been confirmed against the ordinance text.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0031/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The University of Texas System Board of Regents approved the creation of a School of Computing at The University of Texas at Austin on February 19th, 2026. The school merges computer science, information, statistics and data sciences into a single unit inside the College of Natural Sciences. The university framed the decision as advancing its leadership in computing and artificial intelligence. UT Austin says the school is committed to recruiting and hiring 50 faculty positions. It is slated to open in Fall 2026, so the term now beginning is its first.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0032/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted in late April 2026 against a conditional use permit for a $30 million data center proposed by the company ONMINE. City staff had recommended approval. The site is about two and a half acres on South Fort Hood Street on the outskirts of the city. The commission's vote is a recommendation, and the final decision on the zoning rests with the Killeen City Council. Two outlets report the tally differently, one as 4 to 1 to deny and one as 4 to 0 against with a single abstention.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0033/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The El Paso City Council voted on July 20th, 2026 to adopt a Data Center Policy Framework. The resolution came through a City Council Work Session and passed on a motion by Representative Boyar Trejo. The framework routes future hyperscale data center applications through a Special Permit with public notice, City Plan Commission review and a public hearing. It sets standards on water use, energy demand, noise and lighting. It also eliminates local economic incentives for future hyperscale projects. Implementation has to return to council as ordinance amendments, so the framework by itself changes no rule until those pass. El Paso sits in the Western Interconnection served by El Paso Electric and is not on ERCOT.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0034/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The El Paso City Council has a letter to Governor Greg Abbott set for action at its regular meeting on August 18th, 2026. It seeks clarification on his directives on data center development. The item was introduced on August 11th, 2026 by a member of the City Council. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall, 300 North Campbell Street, and virtually. The question underneath it is jurisdictional, because El Paso is served by El Paso Electric in the Western Interconnection and statewide directives written around ERCOT do not automatically reach it.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0035/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

On June 23rd, 2026 the El Paso City Council directed the City Manager to amend the city's 90th Session State Legislative Agenda. The amendment adds advocacy for policy protecting residential ratepayers from the utility costs of data centers. The item cites Governor Greg Abbott's June 10th, 2026 letter to Public Utility Commission of Texas Chairman Thomas Gleeson and ERCOT chief executive Pablo Vegas. It also directs the City Manager and City Attorney to determine whether the electric grid El Paso residents use is incorporated under that directive. The motion was made by Representative Fierro, seconded by Representative Chavez, and it carried. El Paso Electric operates in the Western Interconnection, so ratepayer protections built for ERCOT do not reach El Paso customers by default.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0036/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Guadalupe County Sheriff Joshua Ray asked the Commissioners Court for permission to terminate the county's contract with Flock Safety, and the court approved unanimously. Flock cameras read license plates automatically and alert deputies to vehicles of interest. Ray told the court his view of the technology has not changed and that the reason is cost. The county pays to replace cameras that keep getting vandalized while continuing to pay the monthly bill. Guadalupe County sits in the San Antonio metro area between Seguin and New Braunfels.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0037/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Laredo City Council declined to impose a temporary moratorium on data center permits. It instead directed city management and the city attorney's office, unanimously, to draft permanent regulations for industries that consume large amounts of water or place heavy demand on public utilities. The city attorney told the council that Laredo's existing Land Development Code already prohibits uses that are not specifically permitted. Planning staff reported that neither the city nor Webb County had received an application for a data center. Mayor Victor Trevino held a community town hall on August 11th, 2026 on the proposed regulations.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0038/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The City of Harlingen Waterworks System board of directors approved a water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a supply of effluent water. The water is intended to serve a proposed data center on land outside the Harlingen city limits in Cameron County. General Manager Roy Rodriguez said the company would not use drinking water. The pricing terms reported include a rate per thousand gallons of effluent water and a minimum annual payment tied to average daily volume.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0039/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The National Science Foundation announced the first awards under its CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service program on July 28th, 2026. The University of Texas at El Paso is on the list. UTEP's award is for a project on building an AI-integrated cybersecurity workforce. The scholarships cover tuition and pay an academic year stipend. Recipients owe one year of government service for each year of funding. Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Dallas also received inaugural awards, which puts three of the first round institutions in Texas.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0040/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The University of Texas System Board of Regents approved $25 million in Permanent University Fund support for San Pedro II. The money completes the build-out for UT San Antonio's College of AI, Cyber and Computing. The build-out adds approximately 47,748 square feet in the downtown San Antonio building. At the same meeting the board approved $14.3 million for enterprise technology infrastructure modernization at UT San Antonio. That is part of roughly $470 million in capital investments authorized for the university. The board met on May 20th and May 21st, 2026.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0041/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The City of Wichita Falls Planning and Zoning Commission approved a conditional use request from DataNovaX. It lets the company put a data center inside an existing building at 2236 Airport Drive on the north side of the city. The building is a former grocery store and call center of about 37,000 square feet. City staff attached conditions rather than approving the use outright, and the largest was a ban on evaporative cooling, which forces an air cooled design and holds water use down. Development Services director Fabian Medellin said the applicant agreed to the limits, which also cover light pollution and electricity use. City officials put the load at 12 megawatts and the investment at an estimated 100 million dollars. The Airport Drive building is a first piece of a larger Pioneer Park project with a much bigger second phase planned.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0042/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Young County Commissioners Court formally received a tax abatement application from Headwaters Site Development for the Project Saltworks data center campus at the courthouse in Graham on August 10th, 2026. That agenda item required no vote, and County Judge Win Graham said he would hand the application to the county clerk so it becomes a public document. Commissioners did vote to ratify a separate escrow agreement under which the developer puts up 250,000 dollars to pay for the county's outside consultants while it evaluates the project. Residents used public comment to ask the court to slow down and wait for the Legislature before granting any incentive. Commissioner Alan Craig said the application contained no specifics and that the court would know more when it convenes again on August 17th.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0043/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Archer County Commissioners Court voted unanimously on June 22nd, 2026 against a tax abatement for a data center proposed by Dynamo Ventures LLC. More than 30 residents packed the courthouse to oppose the incentive. County officials said the abatement was the leverage the county had for negotiating infrastructure improvements, local hiring and other commitments, so denying it gave that leverage away. County Judge Randy Jackson said he wants to see what restrictions the Legislature imposes before he would consider any reduction in local tax revenue. The denial does not stop the project from moving forward.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0044/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Angelina County Commissioners Court voted unanimously on July 14th, 2026 to adopt Resolution 010-26. It asks the Texas Legislature to grant counties specific powers over large scale industrial development that local government currently can't reach. The requests include buffer and setback rules, noise and heat attenuation standards, light pollution limits, water impact statements and public hearings. County Judge Keith Wright framed the problem plainly. Without an abatement the county has no control over a data center at all. He also said the ask was kept narrow on purpose because a broad one would fail. The resolution carries no force by itself and lands with a Legislature that is not in regular session.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0045/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Lubbock County Commissioners Court passed a non binding resolution on August 10th, 2026. It asks large scale industrial developers to disclose expected water use, electricity use and infrastructure impacts before building in the unincorporated county. The discussion centered on data centers, though the wording reaches any major business. County Judge Curtis Parrish cast the lone vote against it. He said the resolution should be tailored to data centers if data centers are the concern. The resolution states on its face that it creates no county authority. Commissioner Jason Corley said flatly during the meeting that resolutions are not binding.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0046/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Carson County Commissioners Court approved a tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus in the Texas Panhandle. The agreement is two sided and pays the county on both ends of the same facility. Fermi pays 3 dollars per square foot of data center improvements and from 2,500 to 2,750 dollars per megawatt of generating capacity. County Judge Dan Looten said the agreement covers 15 phases and could extend up to 25 years. Each completed phase enters its own 10 year abatement. Yearly training with local EMS and first responders is written into the deal. This corner of the Panhandle sits in the Southwest Power Pool rather than ERCOT, so the ERCOT interconnection and reliability rules a Texas reader would assume do not govern here.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0047/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Amarillo City Council voted five to nothing on first reading to authorize a water supply agreement with Fermi America, then took the required second reading later that month. Under the terms the city posted itself, Fermi may buy up to 2.5 million gallons of water per day at a rate twice the standard cost. Fermi pays for the wells, piping and other public improvements. The campus is not in the city. It sits next to Pantex about 35 miles north of the Amarillo city limits in Carson County. The city says it has adequate water resources for that volume without affecting the community's water supply or triggering changes to its drought contingency plans. This is a municipally owned utility selling water outside its own limits, which puts the decision in a council chamber rather than at a state agency. The Panhandle grid around it is the Southwest Power Pool rather than ERCOT.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0048/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

On August 11th, 2026 the League City City Council approved Ordinance No. 2026-27 on first and final reading. The ordinance orders a special election on November 3rd, 2026. It asks voters about the police department's continued use of automated license plate reader cameras at fixed locations on public roadways. Mayor Long sponsored the item and asked for approval on first and final reading. Council member Courtney Chadwell moved it and the council passed it twice that evening, once on first reading and once on first and final reading. Voters rather than the council will now settle whether the cameras stay. Reporting in the Houston region identifies the cameras as Flock Safety devices.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0049/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Harris County Commissioners Court approved a renewal option with Flock Group, Inc. for a license plate reader and sound detection system on May 28th, 2026 as agenda item 86. The renewal covers a period running from June 6th, 2026 to June 5th, 2027 at a cost of $868,975. Commissioner Ellis moved approval and Commissioner Garcia seconded. On July 9th, 2026 the court approved a follow up amendment that supplements certain terms and clarifies that the agreement is available for use County-wide at no additional cost. Local reporting on the May vote says the item passed with four votes and that County Judge Lina Hidalgo abstained after residents spoke against it.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0050/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Corpus Christi City Council passed a motion on July 21st, 2026 as agenda item 18, moved by Council Member Gilbert Hernandez and seconded by Council Member Carolyn Vaughn. The motion tells staff to initiate a Unified Development Code amendment defining data centers as a distinct principal land use. Staff are also to amend the zoning and permitted use tables to prohibit them in all districts. It also directs an extraterritorial jurisdiction and infrastructure protection policy. Under it a data center would fully fund its own infrastructure, provide verified water and wastewater planning and address electric and backup power impacts. It would need separate City Council approval before receiving city utility service or economic development incentives. A third part directs the statutory notice, hearing and findings work needed before the council could consider a temporary development moratorium. Nothing is prohibited yet because the motion only starts that process. The same meeting carried a staff briefing on data centers that included an overview of Governor Abbott's recent guidelines.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0051/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Brazoria County Commissioners Court opened and closed a public hearing on the creation of Brazoria County Reinvestment Zone No. 26-01 on March 10th, 2026 and then refused to create the zone. Commissioner David R. Linder moved to deny the order and Commissioner Stacy L. Adams seconded. The county's own minute note records that the motion to deny passed 5 to 0. Later items on the same agenda were four tax abatement applications, two from Bulldog Power and two from Old Ocean Datacenter. Each of those items carries the same note in the record. No action was taken because the reinvestment zone item had failed. Killing the zone killed the abatements without a separate vote on any one of them.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0052/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

On June 9th, 2026 Brazoria County Commissioners Court adopted a measure on data center development. Its own agenda system records it as a resolution about data centers and related facilities in Texas. The item was introduced on May 29th, 2026, reached the court and was approved. Reporting on the resolution says the court supports responsible economic development, including appropriately designed and sited data centers. It also says no future data center should proceed without an independent impact assessment. A county resolution is not an ordinance and Texas counties have no zoning power outside city limits, so this sets a stated position rather than a rule. It came from the same court that had already refused the reinvestment zone behind the Old Ocean Datacenter and Bulldog Power abatement applications.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0053/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Houston Independent School District has a proposed local board policy numbered CQD(LOCAL) covering technology resources and artificial intelligence. The item was introduced on March 20th, 2026. Its first reading sat on the June 11th, 2026 board agenda as item 42. Its second reading sat on the August 13th, 2026 agenda as item 24, in the consent section. The district's agenda system records no action, mover or vote for either reading. The August 13th minutes are still marked draft, so the record does not yet show whether the board adopted it. This is a state-appointed Board of Managers rather than an elected board, and the policy would apply to the largest school district in Texas.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0054/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

HGACBuy is the cooperative purchasing program run by the Houston-Galveston Area Council. It publishes an active contract numbered AI05-26 titled AI Consulting Services. The term runs from May 1st, 2026 through April 30th, 2030. The catalog describes the work as comprehensive guidance through the array of possible solutions where artificial intelligence can be integrated. Five vendors are listed as awarded on the contract page. This is the procurement plumbing behind a lot of Texas government AI work. A contract vehicle is how a small city or district buys a service without running its own solicitation.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0055/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

Conroe City Council voted late on August 13th, 2026 on whether to place a binding proposition about the city's Flock Safety license plate reader cameras before voters in November. Reporting says the motion did not get the three yes votes it needed. Council Member David Hairel and Council Member Shana Arthur were the only members who supported it. The city faced an August 17th deadline to place items on the November ballot, so the question will not reach Conroe voters this fall. The same council had already voted unanimously on July 23rd, 2026 to table two Flock related proposals indefinitely, a step that did not terminate or change the city's Flock agreement. The neighboring city of League City took the opposite path two days earlier and ordered the election.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0056/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Texas Water Development Board took up a petition for rulemaking on July 23rd, 2026. It asked the agency to project water demand for data centers and crypto mining as a standalone industrial category. The petition was filed by Margaret Hill and co petitioners, and the board denied it. At the same meeting the board considered adoption of the 2027 State Water Plan (Phase I), which contains no separate demand line for high density computing load. Board members noted that regional water plans feed the state plan and can be amended as better data arrives. The decision means the state's central water planning document carries data center demand folded inside broader categories rather than on its own.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0057/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality had scheduled a public meeting for August 24th, 2026 at the Panhandle High School Auditorium. It concerns proposed new air quality permits for Fermi Equipment Holdco, LLC. The agency posted a cancelation and stated the meeting will be rescheduled for a later date. The application covers a state new source review permit plus prevention of significant deterioration and greenhouse gas PSD permits. That is the permit family a large behind the meter generating plant needs. The site is in Carson County in the Texas Panhandle, which sits outside ERCOT.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0058/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality had set a notice and comment hearing for August 17th, 2026 in San Antonio. It concerns air permit O4791 held by Vantage Data Centers TX11, LLC. The agency posted a cancelation and said the hearing will be rescheduled for a later date. The facility is in Bexar County. Written comments still go to the Office of the Chief Clerk.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0059/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Tarrant Regional Water District publishes a standing page on data center raw water requests after developers approached it about supply from the Cedar Creek system. The district states that the developer and West Cedar Creek Municipal Utility District formally withdrew their requests and the project is no longer proceeding. The district also states that it has entered into no new water supply contracts specifically to serve data centers. It has not raised contract volumes for existing customers on that basis either. The TRWD Board of Directors is the body that decides raw water supply contracts, and it does so at monthly open meetings that are broadcast. The page was last updated on July 27th, 2026.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0060/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Blanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation District board met on April 16th, 2026 and signed Resolution No. 20260416-1 requesting legislative clarification on the regulation of data centers. The district publishes the signed resolution alongside the meeting minutes and its other board orders from that date. A groundwater conservation district is the body that issues an operating permit when a large user drills its own well. The district is asking for statutory footing before that question reaches it. The same meeting produced a board order granting a commercial permit to another applicant, which shows the routine permitting work the district does month to month.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0061/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The San Marcos City Council voted on June 16th, 2026 to define data centers in the city's zoning rules and make them ineligible for development anywhere inside the city. Council members cited concern that the facilities would draw water and energy away from the local community. The vote came after a long fight over a proposed campus and is the first ban of its kind by a Texas city. The city adopted an amended Land Development Code on the same date under ORD-2026-08, effective that day.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0062/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Fort Worth City Council took three data center votes on August 11th, 2026. Members unanimously approved the first steps toward a 90 day moratorium on accepting, processing and approving new data center applications inside the city. Two further items passed over a single dissent. One creates a Data Center and Infrastructure Commission. The other amends the city code so applicants must document their filings for connection to the Texas grid. The pause is not in force yet. Under the city timeline it takes effect on February 16th after public hearings and further votes, and zoning applications filed before then stay outside it.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0063/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

TCEQ's pending new source review page lists air permit applications whose notices are open to the public. Four of them are data centers. Aligned Data Centers REIT LLC is listed at ADC Plano and Amazon.com Services LLC at TXZ5. Crusoe Energy Systems LLC appears twice, at the Longhorn Data Center and at the Goodnight Data Center. Each row carries a plain language summary in English and Spanish and a notice of receipt of application. Several also carry a notice of application and preliminary decision, which is the document that opens the formal comment window. Crusoe's Longhorn permits include prevention of significant deterioration and greenhouse gas PSD authorizations. That is the permit family covering on site power generation rather than a few backup engines.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0064/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's executive director finished technical review and drafted a permit for an electric power generation facility at 615 Farm-to-Market Road 2404 outside Abilene. That is the address of the Stargate campus in Taylor County. The notice covers three permits at once. They are state air quality permit 182126, PSD permit PSDTX1688 and greenhouse gas PSD permit GHGPSDTX263, all sought by Crusoe Technologies LLC. TCEQ processed the application in an expedited manner under its own rules. Written comments are due within 30 days of the newspaper publication of the notice. A person who may be affected by the emissions can request a contested case hearing on the state and PSD permits, though not on the greenhouse gas permit.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0065/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

San Angelo passed Ordinance 2026-078, which adds Section 11.02.043 to the city water service rules. It puts hard numbers on how much city water a data center may take for cooling. Initial cooling system fill can't exceed 8.0 gallons per square foot of gross building area for each building. Routine makeup water can't exceed six percent of the installed cooling loop volume per building per calendar year, and cooling water has to be metered separately from other use. Any exceedance needs City Manager approval and has to be reported in writing to the City Council within five business days. The ordinance was introduced with a public hearing on May 19th, 2026 and passed on June 16th, 2026, taking effect the same day.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0066/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

San Angelo created Section 430 of its zoning ordinance, the first full land use rulebook for data centers in West Texas. New data centers are allowed as a principal use only by Conditional Use, and only in Light Manufacturing and Heavy Manufacturing districts. Each one comes back to a public hearing. The code caps buildings at 75 feet. It bars ground mounted equipment near residentially zoned property and limits noise to 55 dBa at the property line day and night. It also requires a sound modeling study before final site plan approval and a post development sound study after occupancy. The definition it adopted excludes cryptocurrency mining. The ordinance was introduced on May 5th, 2026 and passed on May 19th, 2026.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0067/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

San Angelo adopted Ordinance 2026-076, which adds a data center subsection to the city's prohibited discharges rule. Any intentional release of treated cooling fluid into the sanitary sewer is defined as a discharge event, and sampling with laboratory verification has to be completed before each one. Records of volumes, results and dates must be kept for at least three years and handed to the Director of Water Utilities on request. Planned discharges need 72 hours written notice. Emergency discharges have to be reported within 4 hours with a written incident report inside 7 days. The council introduced the ordinance on May 19th, 2026 and adopted it on June 2nd, 2026.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0068/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

A small emergency services district in Pecos noticed a public hearing to accept a tax abatement application from Energy Forge One LLC under Chapter 312 of the Texas Tax Code. The application concerns a new gas turbine power generation facility inside the Energy Forge One Reinvestment Zone. That zone was established on November 24th, 2025. The notice describes the plant as producing dedicated power for prospective data center end users. It puts the estimated project cost at $6 billion. The hearing was set for 5.30 in the afternoon on March 25th, 2026 at the district's administrative office in Pecos. All interested persons were free to appear and present testimony. The outcome of that hearing has not been confirmed from district minutes.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0069/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Texas Comptroller now lists application J0022 among current agreements under the Jobs, Energy, Technology and Innovation Act. It pairs Energy Forge One LLC with Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD in Reeves County. The executed agreement was posted on July 24th, 2026. The recommendation packet had gone up on February 11th, 2026. JETI excludes data centers from eligibility. This project entered the program as fossil fuel electric power generation, which is why it also carries no minimum job requirement. The Comptroller's table records a proposed investment of $6.5 billion. Reporting by Grist says the school board approved the application at a February meeting and puts the value of the break at more than $227 million over ten years.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0070/2026-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Tom Green County Commissioners Court voted not to pursue a temporary moratorium on large scale energy and data center development in Precinct 4. The court acted after hearing a presentation from Beacon Data Centers on its proposed Westline site at Dove Creek, west of San Angelo. Commissioner Shawn Nanny pointed to a $100 million lawsuit filed against Hill County after that county approved a similar one year pause. The result is that the unincorporated part of the county has no local pause. The city of San Angelo has three adopted data center ordinances, and they apply only inside its own limits. That split is the whole local story in Texas, where counties have no general zoning power and cities do.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0001/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Public Utility Commission of Texas is amending its wholesale and investor owned utility retail transmission cost recovery rules for the ERCOT region. The commission published a proposal for publication amending Section 25.192 and Section 25.193 and set a comment deadline of August 11th, 2026. Utilities and data center developers filed comments on the deadline date. So did consumer advocates and ERCOT itself. The commission next considers the proposal at an open meeting before adopting a final rule.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0002/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Public Utility Commission of Texas has proposed a new rule governing demand management service for large electric loads, the category that covers data centers. The proposal for publication creates a new Section 25.521. Comments are open until September 4th, 2026. Individual Texans as well as utilities and data center operators have already filed.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0003/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

Oncor Electric Delivery has applied to amend its certificate of convenience and necessity to build the Dinosaur Switch to Longshore Switch transmission line. The application covers a corridor crossing 22 named counties in central and west Texas. The docket has drawn one of the largest volumes of landowner filings in recent PUCT practice. Those filings include intervention requests, protests and a county resolution. The commission has the matter set for an open meeting on August 21st, 2026.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0006/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act took effect on January 1st, 2026 as Chapter 552 of the Business and Commerce Code. It bans developing or deploying an AI system with intent to unlawfully discriminate, to manipulate behavior, for social scoring or to produce certain illegal content. It also requires government agencies to tell people when they are interacting with an AI system. The Attorney General has exclusive enforcement authority and the statute creates no private right of action.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0007/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

Texas law restricts the channels through which the Public Utility Commission may order ERCOT to act. A verbal directive is prohibited outright. An official action may be directed only by contested case, by rulemaking or by a written order or memorandum adopted on a majority vote. The ERCOT board selection committee picks ERCOT's directors and designates its chair. The governor does not.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0008/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

Three separate acts of the 89th Legislature each added a Subchapter S to Government Code Chapter 2054, and two of them number their sections identically. Section 2054.702 exists twice with entirely different commands, as do Sections 2054.701 and 2054.703 through 2054.705. The codifier has flagged the conflict in the published code rather than resolved it. Which text governs a state agency's AI duties is unsettled on the face of the statute.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0009/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Department of Information Resources is required to establish a program letting eligible public entities contract with registered vendors to test AI systems before deployment. That testing is expressly without full compliance with otherwise applicable regulations. Vendors apply, and participants file quarterly reports. The department must report to the Legislature by November 30th of each even numbered year. That makes November 30th, 2026 the first reporting date.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0012/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

Chapter 552 of the Business and Commerce Code supersedes and preempts any local ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation about the use of AI systems. Texas cities and counties that might otherwise write their own AI rules are displaced by the state statute. The preemption is written broadly and without a carve out on its face.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0013/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Texas Jobs, Energy, Technology and Innovation Act is the state's school district property tax incentive program. The Comptroller publishes the current executed agreements. Every project type on that list is manufacturing, power generation or extraction. No agreement on the published list is a data center.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0015/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a wholesale revision of its reactor licensing, safety oversight and siting rules. The revision is being carried out under an executive order directing reform of the agency. Comments close August 31st, 2026. Siting rules bear directly on the new nuclear generation being proposed to serve large electrical loads in Texas.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0016/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has proposed adding questions about artificial intelligence to the American Time Use Survey. Public comment is open under the Paperwork Reduction Act. Comments close September 8th, 2026. The survey is a main federal instrument for measuring how people actually spend working time, so what it asks about AI shapes what is later knowable.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0024/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Public Utility Commission publishes its open meetings and public comment deadlines as a machine readable feed. Every entry is marked open to the public and names the hearing room. The schedule runs well into 2027, so a reader can see in advance when the commission will take up large load and transmission matters.

https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0025/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z

Every state agency and local government that deploys a public facing AI system must post a standardized notice on the related applications, websites and public computer systems. The same duty covers any system that is a controlling factor in a consequential decision. The Department of Information Resources is required to develop the notice form. That form must describe the system, its data sources and its privacy and ethics safeguards.