# Texas AI Docket > A public, fact-checked record of decisions about artificial intelligence in Texas. Every entry carries verbatim quotes from the sources it rests on, and at least one primary source. Every numeral is computed from data, never written by a person. This record may be read, indexed, cited and quoted. Attribution to the Texas AI Docket with a link to the page is requested. No crawler is blocked. Every decision also exists as Markdown at the same path plus index.md, and the whole record is one fetch at /llms-full.txt. ## Start here - [The record, every tracked decision](https://texasaidocket.com/record/) - [Questions answered from the record](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/) - [Every source a claim was checked against](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/) - [Texas Grid Watch, the daily ERCOT record](https://texasaidocket.com/grid/) - [Texas Water Watch](https://texasaidocket.com/water/) ## Questions, by what is being asked Each page answers one kind of question about every decision on the record. - [What each decision is](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/what-it-is/): The record's own summary of every entry it carries. - [Who decides](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/who-decides/): The body holding the pen on each decision. - [How the public can take part](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/taking-part/): The room each decision is being made in, and what that room allows. - [Where a comment window is open](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/open-comment/): The decisions taking written comment right now. - [Where in Texas each one applies](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/where-in-texas/): Counties and metros, from the geography on the record. - [What has been decided](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/decided-or-pending/): Settled, pending or withdrawn, for every entry. - [What happens next](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/what-happens-next/): The next dated step on each decision, counted against today. - [When each one started](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/when-it-started/): The earliest date on every entry's record. - [What kind of decision each one is](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/kind-of-decision/): The topic each entry is filed under. - [What sources back each one](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/sources-behind-it/): How many documents stand behind an entry, and how many are primary. - [Which are on the ERCOT grid](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/on-the-ercot-grid/): Inside or outside the interconnection that covers most of Texas. - [When each one was last checked](https://texasaidocket.com/questions/last-checked/): The date every fact on an entry was last verified against its source. ## What the record rests on, by publisher Every document a claim here was checked against, grouped by who published it. Heaviest first. - [interchange.puc.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/interchange-puc-texas-gov/) - [api.nsf.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/api-nsf-gov/) - [texastribune.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/texastribune-org/) - [ercot.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/ercot-com/) - [webapi.legistar.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/webapi-legistar-com/) - [capitol.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/capitol-texas-gov/) - [govinfo.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/govinfo-gov/) - [pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/pmc-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov/) - [utsystem.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/utsystem-edu/) - [static.nhtsa.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/static-nhtsa-gov/) - [tcss.legis.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/tcss-legis-texas-gov/) - [news.utexas.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/news-utexas-edu/) - [news.utsa.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/news-utsa-edu/) - [prnewswire.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/prnewswire-com/) - [gov.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/gov-texas-gov/) - [kodiak.ai](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/kodiak-ai/) - [sanangelo.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/sanangelo-gov/) - [news.engineering.tamu.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/news-engineering-tamu-edu/) - [news.rice.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/news-rice-edu/) - [taylortx.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/taylortx-gov/) - [faa.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/faa-gov/) - [assets-ir.tesla.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/assets-ir-tesla-com/) - [elpasotexas.legistar.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/elpasotexas-legistar-com/) - [eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/eutils-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov/) - [infohub.austincc.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/infohub-austincc-edu/) - [sboe.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/sboe-texas-gov/) - [govtech.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/govtech-com/) - [tceq.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/tceq-texas-gov/) - [dhs.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/dhs-gov/) - [lrl.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/lrl-texas-gov/) - [public.destinyhosted.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/public-destinyhosted-com/) - [puc.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/puc-texas-gov/) - [storage.courtlistener.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/storage-courtlistener-com/) - [mdanderson.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/mdanderson-org/) - [news.lockheedmartin.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/news-lockheedmartin-com/) - [news.tamus.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/news-tamus-edu/) - [senate.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/senate-texas-gov/) - [utmb.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/utmb-edu/) - [clinicaltrials.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/clinicaltrials-gov/) - [communityimpact.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/communityimpact-com/) - [ftp.puc.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/ftp-puc-texas-gov/) - [newschannel6now.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/newschannel6now-com/) - [tea.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/tea-texas-gov/) - [txdmv.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/txdmv-gov/) - [docs.tacc.utexas.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/docs-tacc-utexas-edu/) - [tahc.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/tahc-texas-gov/) - [texaschildrens.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/texaschildrens-org/) - [tpr.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/tpr-org/) - [uta.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/uta-edu/) - [utep.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/utep-edu/) - [utsouthwestern.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/utsouthwestern-edu/) - [austintexas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/austintexas-gov/) - [blog.cstx.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/blog-cstx-gov/) - [nsf.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/nsf-gov/) - [houstonmethodist.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/houstonmethodist-org/) - [nbcdfw.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/nbcdfw-com/) - [services.austintexas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/services-austintexas-gov/) - [taylortx.api.civicclerk.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/taylortx-api-civicclerk-com/) - [txdot.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/txdot-gov/) - [wilcotx.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/wilcotx-gov/) - [ars.usda.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/ars-usda-gov/) - [comptroller.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/comptroller-texas-gov/) - [ksat.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/ksat-com/) - [arxiv.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/arxiv-org/) - [content.govdelivery.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/content-govdelivery-com/) - [federalregister.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/federalregister-gov/) - [hwws.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/hwws-com/) - [kcbd.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/kcbd-com/) - [newschannel10.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/newschannel10-com/) - [texaspolicyresearch.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/texaspolicyresearch-com/) - [abc7amarillo.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/abc7amarillo-com/) - [aboutamazon.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/aboutamazon-com/) - [abridge.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/abridge-com/) - [api.nhtsa.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/api-nhtsa-gov/) - [brownsvilletx.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/brownsvilletx-gov/) - [click2houston.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/click2houston-com/) - [dallascityhall.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/dallascityhall-com/) - [globenewswire.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/globenewswire-com/) - [kltv.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/kltv-com/) - [legistar1.granicus.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/legistar1-granicus-com/) - [news.unt.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/news-unt-edu/) - [olneyenterprise.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/olneyenterprise-com/) - [oncor.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/oncor-com/) - [provost.utexas.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/provost-utexas-edu/) - [rcesd.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/rcesd-org/) - [sa.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/sa-gov/) - [search.txcourts.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/search-txcourts-gov/) - [txcourts.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/txcourts-gov/) - [waymo.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/waymo-com/) - [brazoscountytx.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/brazoscountytx-gov/) - [city-of-temple.prowly.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/city-of-temple-prowly-com/) - [dir.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/dir-texas-gov/) - [dsait.tamu.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/dsait-tamu-edu/) - [finviz.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/finviz-com/) - [fox4news.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/fox4news-com/) - [grist.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/grist-org/) - [hayscountytx.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/hayscountytx-gov/) - [hgacbuy.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/hgacbuy-org/) - [house.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/house-texas-gov/) - [krgv.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/krgv-com/) - [kvia.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/kvia-com/) - [med.uth.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/med-uth-edu/) - [seguingazette.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/seguingazette-com/) - [texaspolitics.utexas.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/texaspolitics-utexas-edu/) - [texasscorecard.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/texasscorecard-com/) - [top500.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/top500-org/) - [troutman.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/troutman-com/) - [trwd.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/trwd-com/) - [vision.tamus.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/vision-tamus-edu/) - [volvogroup.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/volvogroup-com/) - [web.risd.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/web-risd-org/) - [abc13.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/abc13-com/) - [aect.net](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/aect-net/) - [amarillo.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/amarillo-gov/) - [axon.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/axon-com/) - [blancogroundwatertx.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/blancogroundwatertx-gov/) - [courthousenews.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/courthousenews-com/) - [denton-tx.legistar.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/denton-tx-legistar-com/) - [docs.vision.tamus.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/docs-vision-tamus-edu/) - [energy.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/energy-gov/) - [healthsystemcio.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/healthsystemcio-com/) - [killeentexas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/killeentexas-gov/) - [leandertx.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/leandertx-gov/) - [mylubbock.us](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/mylubbock-us/) - [news.txst.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/news-txst-edu/) - [press.aboutamazon.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/press-aboutamazon-com/) - [sanangelolive.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/sanangelolive-com/) - [sec.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/sec-gov/) - [templetx.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/templetx-gov/) - [twdb.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/twdb-texas-gov/) - [wiwynn.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/wiwynn-com/) - [about.fb.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/about-fb-com/) - [advancing.utsystem.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/advancing-utsystem-edu/) - [angelinacounty.net](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/angelinacounty-net/) - [aphis.usda.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/aphis-usda-gov/) - [austincc.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/austincc-edu/) - [cbsaustin.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/cbsaustin-com/) - [cbsnews.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/cbsnews-com/) - [engineering.unt.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/engineering-unt-edu/) - [fox34.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/fox34-com/) - [galaxy.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/galaxy-com/) - [govably.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/govably-com/) - [hadrian.co](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/hadrian-co/) - [kbtx.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/kbtx-com/) - [keranews.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/keranews-org/) - [kgns.tv](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/kgns-tv/) - [kristv.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/kristv-com/) - [kut.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/kut-org/) - [kwtx.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/kwtx-com/) - [leaguecitytx.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/leaguecitytx-gov/) - [lufkindailynews.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/lufkindailynews-com/) - [reason.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/reason-org/) - [registrar.utexas.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/registrar-utexas-edu/) - [sanmarcostx.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/sanmarcostx-gov/) - [sites.austincc.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/sites-austincc-edu/) - [stories.xcelenergy.com](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/stories-xcelenergy-com/) - [tarleton.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/tarleton-edu/) - [tdlr.texas.gov](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/tdlr-texas-gov/) - [texome.org](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/texome-org/) - [uh.edu](https://texasaidocket.com/sources/uh-edu/) ## Open right now Decisions a member of the public still has a dated way into. - [Federal survey office asks whether the household internet survey should start measuring AI use, closing November 9th](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0145/): The National Telecommunications and Information Administration submitted its Internet Use Survey to the Office of Management and Budget for renewal on September 9th, 2026. - [Governor Abbott directs the utility commission and ERCOT to audit every data center in the interconnection queue before any advances](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0072/): Governor Greg Abbott issued a directive on August 3rd, 2026. It tells the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to run a verification and audit of every data center moving through the interconnection process. - [Justice Department takes comment on a judgment barring a Frisco apartment manager from rent software fed by rivals' data](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0189/): The Justice Department filed a proposed final judgment on September 4th, 2026 against Pinnacle Property Management Services, an apartment manager headquartered in Frisco. - [League City City Council ordered a November 3rd special election on whether police may keep using automated license plate reader cameras](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0048/): 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. - [PUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0024/): 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 room. - [San Antonio takes two data center zoning proposals to a public hearing on October 20th and a council vote on October 29th](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0220/): The City of San Antonio's Department of Development Services presented two proposals to change the Unified Development Code for data centers. ## The whole record, by beat ### Data centers - [A data center developer tells its shareholders what the Batch Zero list did to five of its Texas projects, and one came back in a different class than it was filed in](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0157/): Galaxy Digital published an account on September 8th, 2026 of the conditional Batch Zero classifications ERCOT gave five of its Texas data center projects. - [A statewide poll finds most Texas voters oppose a data center in their own community for a second survey running](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0105/): The Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin polled 1200 registered Texas voters from August 5th to 13th, 2026. It reported that 57 percent oppose the construction of a data center in their community. - [Amazon and Wiwynn say they will expand the El Paso County plant that builds the racks going into AI data centers](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0146/): Amazon and Wiwynn announced an expansion of Wiwynn's manufacturing operations in Socorro, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer's first plant in the United States. - [Angelina County Commissioners Court adopts Resolution 010-26 asking the Legislature for authority over data centers](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0044/): 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... - [Archer County Commissioners Court unanimously denies a tax abatement for a Dynamo Ventures data center](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0043/): 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. - [Austin City Council takes up a resolution to amend the land code for data centers](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0115/): A resolution on the Austin City Council's August 27th, 2026 agenda directs staff to begin amendments to City Code Title 25, the Land Development Code. - [Austin City Council takes up a resolution to write data centers into a land development code that has no definition of one](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0106/): Item 61 on the Austin City Council's regular meeting agenda for August 27th, 2026 asks the council to approve a resolution. It would initiate amendments to Title 25 of the City Code, the Land Development Code. - [Brazoria County Commissioners Court adopted a resolution stating conditions it wants on data center development](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0052/): 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. - [Brazoria County Commissioners Court voted 5 to 0 to deny the reinvestment zone that four data center and power plant abatement applications depended on](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0051/): 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. The court then refused to create the zone. Commissioner David R. - [Brazos County Commissioners Court assigns the RELLIS data center tax abatement to ThisWay Global after the original developer's bankruptcy](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0088/): Brazos County posted a Tax Code Section 312.207 notice that its Commissioners Court would consider assigning the tax abatement agreement for the RELLIS Campus data and research center. - [Brownsville takes up a temporary moratorium on data centers after staff tells the commission its code has no rules for them](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0128/): At its September 1st, 2026 meeting the Brownsville City Commission considered starting the process for a temporary moratorium. - [Carson County Commissioners Court approves a phased tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0046/): Carson County Commissioners Court approved a tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus in the Texas Panhandle. - [Comptroller's JETI current agreements list contains no data center project](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0013/): 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. - [Corpus Christi City Council directed staff to write a zoning amendment prohibiting data centers in every zoning district and to prepare a moratorium process](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0050/): 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. - [Denton City Council takes up a data center moratorium resolution and a schedule of the public hearings it would require](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0087/): An agenda item asked the Denton City Council to approve a resolution on a moratorium. It covers the acceptance and processing and approval of applications for data center development inside the city limits. - [ERCOT pauses energizing new large data centers and crypto mines until its audit is done](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0202/): ERCOT told its board that it has paused the energization of new large load data centers and crypto mining facilities. The pause covers sites of 75 MW or more that are not yet connected to the ERCOT system. - [El Paso City Council adopted a letter asking Governor Abbott to clarify his data center directives](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0034/): The El Paso City Council approved and adopted a letter to Governor Greg Abbott seeking clarification on his directives on data center development throughout Texas. - [El Paso City Council adopts a Data Center Policy Framework requiring a Special Permit for hyperscale projects](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0033/): 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. - [Governor Abbott directs the utility commission and ERCOT to audit every data center in the interconnection queue before any advances](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0072/): Governor Greg Abbott issued a directive on August 3rd, 2026. It tells the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to run a verification and audit of every data center moving through the interconnection process. - [House State Affairs held an interim hearing on data center development and the proposed 765 kV transmission lines](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0078/): The Texas House Committee on State Affairs met on August 19th, 2026 on two interim charges. The first directs it to study the development of data centers in Texas and to review the regulatory framework governing that... - [Judges back El Paso Electric's gas plant for Meta only if other customers don't pay](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0193/): El Paso Electric asked the Public Utility Commission of Texas to amend its certificate so it can build and own the McCloud facility. - [Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a conditional use permit for a $30 million ONMINE data center](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0032/): The Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a conditional use permit for a $30 million data center proposed by the company ONMINE. It voted at its regular meeting on April 27th, 2026. - [Laredo City Council declined a data center moratorium, and its direction to write permanent rules has reached three agendas with no recorded action](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0037/): Laredo City Council declined to impose a temporary moratorium on data center permits at its meeting on July 27th, 2026. - [Lubbock County Commissioners Court passes a non binding disclosure resolution on large scale industrial development, four to one](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0045/): 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... - [Lubbock starts the procedure for a 90 day data center moratorium after the 18 month petition fails](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0138/): The Lubbock City Council held a public hearing on September 8th, 2026 on a citizen petition brought under the city charter. - [PUCT told an Armstrong County AI data center to shed its whole load, then left those conditions in place](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0108/): The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved a net metering arrangement in Docket 59220 on July 24th, 2026. It lets a second AI data center complex share the point of interconnection and the settlement meter of... - [San Angelo writes data centers into its zoning code and makes them a conditional use only](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0066/): San Angelo created Section 430 of its zoning ordinance, the first full land use rulebook for data centers in West Texas. - [San Antonio takes two data center zoning proposals to a public hearing on October 20th and a council vote on October 29th](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0220/): The City of San Antonio's Department of Development Services presented two proposals to change the Unified Development Code for data centers. - [Taylor City Council approves an agreement to annex a 664 acre data center campus under written water, setback and noise terms](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0203/): The City of Taylor has a proposed development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for Taylor Technology Campus. - [Taylor City Council unanimously approved the amended Compal tax abatement agreement](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0027/): Taylor City Council approved the Amended and Restated Tax Abatement Agreement with PDC TP 01 LOT A LLC and Compal Technology, Inc. at its August 13th, 2026 meeting. - [Temple Planning and Zoning Commission takes up a Unified Development Code amendment that would require a Conditional Use Permit for every future data center](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0026/): 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. - [The utility commission sues the Attorney General to keep the county and water planning area of each surveyed data center from release](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0219/): The Public Utility Commission of Texas filed an original petition in Travis County district court on October 5th, 2026 against Attorney General Ken Paxton in his official capacity. - [Tom Green County Commissioners Court declines a Precinct 4 moratorium on data centers and large energy projects](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0070/): The Tom Green County Commissioners Court voted not to pursue a temporary moratorium on large scale energy and data center development in Precinct 4. - [Wichita Falls Planning and Zoning Commission approves a conditional use permit for a DataNovaX data center on Airport Drive](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0041/): 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... - [Williamson County Commissioners Court granted Compal USA Technology a Chapter 312 abatement for a Georgetown server service center](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0029/): The Williamson County Commissioners Court approved a Chapter 312 tax abatement incentive agreement for Compal USA Technology Inc. on April 15th, 2026. - [Young County Commissioners Court receives the Project Saltworks tax abatement application and ratifies a developer funded escrow for consultants](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0042/): 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. ### Defense and federal - [FAA takes comment until October 11th on letting Zipline fly drone deliveries around the clock over five Texas metros](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0186/): The Federal Aviation Administration has published a draft environmental assessment of Zipline International's request to begin commercial drone package delivery in Amarillo, Austin, El Paso, Houston and San Antonio. - [Federal comment window has closed on NRC reactor licensing and siting modernization](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0015/): 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. - [Federal commodities regulator opens comment on trading derivatives whose underlying commodity is compute](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0118/): The Commodity Futures Trading Commission published a request for comment on August 21st, 2026 asking what a designated contract market should weigh before listing derivatives with compute as the underlier. - [Federal energy department opens comment on securing the grid and names AI as why demand grew, closing October 9th](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0144/): The Department of Energy published a request for information on September 9th, 2026. It implements an August 26th executive order on securing the United States bulk power system. - [Federal investigators opened a defect evaluation into a driverless system after crashes in Dallas and Austin](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0136/): The Office of Defects Investigation at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a preliminary evaluation into the Avride automated driving system. - [Federal regulators open an audit of how Tesla certified the Cybercab, on the day commercial deployment began in Austin](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0140/): The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened Audit Query AQ26002 on September 3rd, 2026, the same day Tesla began commercial deployment of the Cybercab in Austin. - [Federal survey office asks whether the household internet survey should start measuring AI use, closing November 9th](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0145/): The National Telecommunications and Information Administration submitted its Internet Use Survey to the Office of Management and Budget for renewal on September 9th, 2026. - [Justice Department takes comment on a judgment barring a Frisco apartment manager from rent software fed by rivals' data](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0189/): The Justice Department filed a proposed final judgment on September 4th, 2026 against Pinnacle Property Management Services, an apartment manager headquartered in Frisco. - [Lockheed Martin brings Hadrian's 24 machine automated machining cell into its Grand Prairie missile parts plant](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0225/): Lockheed Martin announced on October 14th, 2026 that it is investing $300 million in its Grand Prairie operation and expanding it to more than 735,000 square feet. - [Saronic breaks ground at the Port of Brownsville on Port Alpha, a shipyard built to make autonomous and crewed ships, on a Cameron County abatement](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0204/): Saronic Technologies broke ground on September 30th on Port Alpha. It is a shipyard at the Port of Brownsville that the company says will build autonomous and crewed ships. Navy landing craft are among the first. ### Health and education - [A generative AI platform at UTMB reached the UT System Regents only on its third amendment, at $9,850,000, and now covers all seven health institutions](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0094/): The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston contracted in December 2024 for a platform giving it a secure way to work with generative artificial intelligence models. - [A machine scores the longer written answers on English STAAR first](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0194/): The Texas Education Agency scores the constructed responses on English language STAAR tests with an automated scoring engine first. At least 25 percent of those answers then go to people. - [A three campus Texas trial tests whether a phone microphone held to the abdomen can count fetal movement by machine](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0166/): A feasibility trial registered on the federal clinical trials registry is recruiting pregnant patients at three Texas academic campuses. - [An MD Anderson and UT Medical Branch MRI model scored lower on patients it was not built on](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0151/): The authors include radiologists at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. - [Austin Community College drafts what it calls its first AI policy under a five rule framework and opens it to a town hall on October 12th](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0212/): Austin Community College says it is developing what it calls its first-ever artificial intelligence policy. The policy is to follow a framework the college calls TRUST, which two collegewide AI committees developed. - [Case managers beat Houston Methodist's discharge AI on the last day](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0137/): JAMA Network Open published a quality improvement study on September 3rd, 2026. It compared discharge dates from a commercial AI tool built into Houston Methodist Hospital's electronic health record against dates... - [House Public Health held an interim hearing on artificial intelligence use in health care](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0079/): The Texas House Committee on Public Health met on August 20th, 2026 on a charge about clinical artificial intelligence. - [Houston ISD carried an artificial intelligence board policy to a second reading](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0053/): 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. - [Houston Methodist put an imaging AI in front of its radiologists and says out loud that it is imperfect](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0101/): Houston Methodist rolled out a suite of AI imaging tools across the system, starting with a small group of users before widening it. - [Houston Methodist ties camera AI in 15 cardiothoracic surgery rooms to about 25 more cases a month, and says it can't prove the cameras caused it](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0222/): Houston Methodist researchers published a study in the Journal of Imaging on June 27th, 2026. It covers an image based AI system from Apella that the hospital put into a 15 room cardiothoracic suite at Walter Tower in... - [Houston academic physician group moves from two ambient AI pilots toward one unified documentation platform](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0160/): UT Physicians is the clinical practice of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Its chief medical information officer told a school wide meeting on September 9th, 2026 that the practice is working toward adopting... - [Memorial Hermann clinicians send Houston patients an AI drafted explanation of their own test results](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0162/): Memorial Hermann Health System says its clinicians are using an artificial intelligence assistant built into Epic to draft the note a patient receives with a lab or imaging result. - [National Science Foundation names UT El Paso in the first round of CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service awards](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0039/): 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. - [Richardson ISD drafts a legislative ask that puts classroom AI guidance first](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0177/): The Richardson Independent School District board reviewed a draft of the district's 2027 legislative priorities at its September 18th, 2026 meeting. - [State education staff helped Alpha School's AI platform into pilots in Houston, Aldine and Fort Davis](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0200/): Emails obtained by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica show Texas Education Agency staff helped connect Alpha School's AI learning platform with public school districts. - [Texas A&M tells its campus to run AI through a university portal rather than a public chatbot](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0132/): Texas A&M University Technology Services published guidance on August 31st, 2026 naming TAMU AI Chat as the university approved way for faculty, staff and students to use commercial AI models. - [Texas Children's and Baylor researchers name a likely genetic cause of a rare disorder after an AI tool flagged the gene](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0195/): Researchers at Texas Children's Hospital's Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine and the Texome Project published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. - [Texas Children's and UT Southwestern radiologists publish that imaging AI has largely skipped children](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0150/): An expert panel review in the American Journal of Roentgenology states that pediatric medical imaging remains substantially underrepresented across artificial intelligence in radiology. - [The University of North Texas takes a twenty million dollar gift and names a college of artificial intelligence after the donors](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0165/): The University of North Texas announced a gift from Anuradha and Vikas Sinha and will name the Anuradha and Vikas Sinha College of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics. - [The University of Texas at Austin requires every course syllabus to state its AI policy](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0117/): The Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost requires a Course Artificial Intelligence Policy in every syllabus every semester. The policy has to name one of three designations. - [The board takes a required high school money course to final adoption, and the text it published names AI tools in three of its chapters](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0142/): The State Board of Education took the new Applied Personal Financial Literacy standards to second reading and final adoption. Its item for that is dated September 4th, 2026, and it publishes one attachment. - [UT Arlington replaces its business analytics degrees with artificial intelligence degrees](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0173/): The University of Texas at Arlington College of Business announced on September 14th, 2026 that it had launched artificial intelligence degrees. - [UT Austin puts a computer science and AI course in the core every undergraduate takes](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0100/): The University of Texas at Austin published a new Core Curriculum on August 13th, 2026 that names Computer Science and AI among the foundational courses. - [UT REAL Health AI funds 12 pilot projects that put AI into UT System hospitals and medical schools](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0201/): The University of Texas Research, Engineering, and Application Laboratory for Healthcare Artificial Intelligence announced funding for 12 pilot projects. - [UT REAL Health AI signs a systemwide agreement letting UT health institutions use Abridge's ambient note taking](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0210/): Abridge announced on October 8th an enterprise agreement with UT REAL Health AI, the University of Texas System's health AI initiative. - [UT Southwestern finds AI triage models moved some emergency patients who later got worse down the line after one stigmatizing detail was added](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0228/): UT Southwestern Medical Center reported on October 20th, 2026 a study published in npj Digital Medicine. Its researchers paired emergency patients of similar starting severity, using records from Stanford Medicine and... - [UT Southwestern says AI now does most of the grading on its medical students' clinical exam notes](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0102/): UT Southwestern Medical Center built a process that reads and grades the post encounter notes students write after their objective structured clinical examinations. - [UT System Regents put the first billion dollars of the UT Dell Medical Center into the capital program](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0095/): The Board of Regents approved adding the first phase of the UT Dell Medical Center in Austin to the capital improvement program. It acted at its August 12th, 2026 meeting. - [UTMB moved its Epic health record into Microsoft's cloud and named advanced technologies as the reason](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0082/): The University of Texas Medical Branch migrated its electronic health record from servers it runs itself onto Microsoft's Azure platform, and announced the move on August 13th, 2026. - [UTMB puts OpenEvidence's AI answers inside its health record and says more than half of its clinicians use it](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0208/): The University of Texas Medical Branch announced on September 22nd that OpenEvidence, an AI platform that answers clinical questions with citations to medical literature, sits inside its electronic health record. - [University of North Texas lists an undergraduate artificial intelligence degree](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0133/): The University of North Texas lists a Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence through its Department of Computer Science and Engineering. ### Land, water and permitting - [A Texas Senate committee set a hearing on how much water data center cooling uses and whether local water providers are told](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0126/): The Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs posted notice that it would meet at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 in hearing room E1.012. Senator Charles Perry chairs it. - [Amarillo City Council authorizes a twenty year water supply agreement selling city water to Fermi America's Project Matador](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0047/): 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. - [Blanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation District signed a resolution asking the Legislature to clarify district authority over data centers](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0060/): 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. - [Fort Worth City Council unanimously began a 90 day data center moratorium and adopted grid filing requirements over one dissent](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0062/): 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... - [Governor directs the environmental agency to issue no data center permits until the grid audit is done](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0182/): On September 21st, 2026 the Governor directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to suspend action on all permits sought by data center projects. - [Governor directs the water board to enforce the state water use survey against data centers that did not return it](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0171/): The Office of the Governor issued a directive to the Texas Water Development Board on September 14th, 2026. It tells the board to enforce the water use survey requirement against major water users, naming data centers. - [Grid operator asks the water board's questions and gives data centers until October 12th](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0172/): ERCOT issued Market Notice M-B091426-01 on September 14th, 2026, opening a Request for Information on the state and community impacts of data centers. - [Harlingen Waterworks System board approves an effluent water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a proposed data center](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0038/): The City of Harlingen Waterworks System board of directors approved a water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a supply of effluent water. - [Hays County Commissioners Court adopted a 180-day emergency water review period for high water use developments and created a review board](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0028/): 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. - [San Angelo City Council caps data center cooling water by ordinance](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0065/): 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. - [San Angelo sets reporting rules for data center coolant discharged into the city sewer](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0067/): San Angelo adopted Ordinance 2026-076, which adds a data center subsection to the city's prohibited discharges rule. - [San Marcos City Council voted 4 to 3 to define data centers in its land development code and make them ineligible citywide](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0061/): 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. - [TCEQ canceled the Carson County public meeting on Fermi Equipment Holdco's new air permits and says it will be rescheduled](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0057/): 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. - [TCEQ canceled the San Antonio notice and comment hearing on Vantage Data Centers TX11's air permit O4791](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0058/): 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. - [TCEQ has four data center air permit applications posted with published public notices, including Crusoe's two Texas campuses](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0063/): TCEQ's pending new source review page lists air permit applications whose notices are open to the public. Four of them are data centers. - [TCEQ issues preliminary decision and opens comment on Crusoe's gas power plant at the Abilene data center campus](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0064/): 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. - [Tarrant Regional Water District says it has signed no water supply contract for a data center and that the Cedar Creek request was withdrawn](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0059/): 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. - [Texas Water Development Board denied a petition to give data centers their own water demand category and adopted the 2027 State Water Plan the same day](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0056/): 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 National Science Foundation funds a Texas A&M project to build AI digital twins of small and mid-sized water systems](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0176/): The National Science Foundation made a standard grant to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station in College Station. The work is AI enabled digital twins of freshwater infrastructure under cascading hazards. ### Power and the grid - [Asked for AI camera fire detections, Xcel counted cameras](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0192/): The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved the system resiliency plan of Southwestern Public Service Company, which serves the Panhandle as Xcel Energy, in Docket 57463. - [ERCOT starts sending the Batch Zero questionnaires, and a data center that does not answer comes off the list](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0143/): ERCOT issued a market notice on September 9th, 2026. It states that the grid operator has begun sending Batch Zero Verification Requests for Information. - [ERCOT tells its board that AI training loads can fatigue grid generators and drafts a limit on how fast their power draw may swing](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0159/): The Electric Reliability Council of Texas put a list of emerging Large Load risks in front of its own Board of Directors at the September 14th and 15th, 2026 meeting. - [El Paso City Council amends its state legislative agenda to seek protection for residential ratepayers from data center utility costs](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0035/): On June 23rd, 2026 the El Paso City Council directed the City Manager to amend the city's 90th Session State Legislative Agenda. - [Grid operator weighs a year's grace for data center cooling equipment on ride-through rules](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0114/): A revision request pending at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas concerns the grid's ride-through requirements. It would give a large computational load up to 365 days after its in-service date to comply. - [PUCT Docket 59029, Oncor application for a second 765 kV line across ten west Texas counties](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0076/): Oncor Electric Delivery has applied to amend its certificate of convenience and necessity to build the Longshore Switch to Drill Hole Switch transmission line. The application covers ten named counties in west Texas. - [PUCT Docket 59315, Oncor application for a 765 kV transmission line across 22 counties](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0003/): Oncor Electric Delivery has applied to amend its certificate of convenience and necessity to build the Dinosaur Switch to Longshore Switch transmission line. - [PUCT Project 58000, rulemaking to update ERCOT transmission cost recovery, comment deadline reached](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0001/): The Public Utility Commission of Texas is amending its wholesale and investor owned utility retail transmission cost recovery rules for the ERCOT region. - [PUCT Project 58482, proposed new rule on Large Load Demand Management Service, comment window now shut](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0002/): The Public Utility Commission of Texas has proposed a new rule governing demand management service for large electric loads. The proposal for publication creates a new Section 25.521. - [PUCT adopts the SB 6 large load interconnection rule, requires $50,000 per megawatt of security and drops the interconnection fee](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0187/): The Public Utility Commission of Texas adopted new 16 TAC §25.194, the large load interconnection standards Senate Bill 6 required. - [PUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0024/): 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 room. - [PUCT wildfire plan blueprint lists cameras suggested, not required](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0191/): The wildfire mitigation plan rule, 16 TAC §25.60, reaches every electric utility, municipally owned utility and electric cooperative that owns transmission or distribution lines in Texas. - [PUCT's first five year review of the ERCOT system-wide offer caps closed to comment on September 17th](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0107/): The Public Utility Commission of Texas has opened Project 59550, the quinquennial review of the system-wide offer cap programs under 16 TAC Section 25.509(d). - [Reeves County Emergency Services District No. 2 takes up a Chapter 312 abatement for a gas plant built to run data centers](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0068/): 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 grid operator sends every conditionally classified large load a questionnaire, with a notarized attestation and ten business days to answer](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0156/): ERCOT published the user guide for the Verification RFI on September 11th, 2026, the questionnaire it issues as part of the Batch Zero eligibility verification. - [The grid operator sets an October 6th workshop on how it would curtail a large load under Senate Bill 6](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0139/): ERCOT issued a market notice on September 2nd, 2026 setting a workshop for October 6th. The workshop presents the deployment mechanics, the registration process and the draft revision requests for curtailing large loads... - [The grid operator tells providers which large loads it has provisionally placed in Batch Zero, and every placement carries a condition](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0152/): ERCOT issued a market notice telling each Interconnecting Distribution Service Provider and Transmission Service Provider how it had provisionally classified the large loads submitted for the Batch Zero interconnection... - [Utilities Code limits how the PUCT may direct ERCOT, and bars verbal directives](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0007/): Texas law restricts the channels through which the Public Utility Commission may order ERCOT to act. A verbal directive is prohibited outright. - [Utility commission approves a 765 kilovolt line from Somervell County to Howard County](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0112/): The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved an amendment to Oncor's certificate of convenience and necessity for a new 765 kilovolt transmission line. ### Research and science - [A Houston oil producer buys into an AI vendor and commits its Ward County operations to the vendor's system](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0181/): Battalion Oil Corporation announced on September 8th, 2026 an equity investment in Collide Industrial Technologies and a Strategic Partner designation. - [An MD Anderson AI model reads where T cells gather in tumor tissue, and points at mucin as a wall that may keep them out](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0217/): Researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and collaborating Texas institutions published an AI model called SPACER in Nature Biomedical Engineering. - [Energy Department funds a synthetic underground test pit at a Navasota drilling site to prove out mining automation](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0148/): The Energy Department's Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation named four mining proving ground projects on September 9th, 2026. - [Energy Department research arm funds a Houston led team using AI to search for new magnet materials](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0124/): Rice University published on September 1st, 2026 that the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy awarded a three year grant to a coalition led by the University of Houston. - [Federal comment window has closed on adding AI questions to the American Time Use Survey](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0016/): The Bureau of Labor Statistics proposed adding questions about artificial intelligence to the American Time Use Survey and took public comment on it under the Paperwork Reduction Act. - [Four Texas campuses took roles in the Energy Department's AI for science program](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0103/): The Department of Energy announced the recipients of its Genesis Mission in Washington on July 22nd, 2026. UT Austin leads two projects and partners on three more. - [Frontera's queues close permanently on October 1st, 2026](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0125/): The Texas Advanced Computing Center's Frontera user guide carries a warning. The queues close permanently on October 1st, 2026 after seven years of running. - [Google.org funds a UT Austin team to build AI surrogate models for testing fusion reactor designs](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0221/): The University of Texas at Austin says a team led by assistant professor of physics Joshua Burby was selected for the Google.org Impact Challenge on AI for Science. - [NSF awarded Prairie View A and M a grant to let AI split up the grid optimization problem across processor cores](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0080/): The National Science Foundation made an award to Prairie View A and M University on August 11th, 2026 under its HBCU Excellence in Research program. - [NSF awarded UT Austin a grant to replace hand written robot safety rules with a model trained on demonstrated safe behavior](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0081/): The National Science Foundation made an award to the University of Texas at Austin on August 13th, 2026 under its Foundational Research in Robotics program. - [NSF funds a Rice laboratory where a model designs the experiment and a robot runs it, bookable from anywhere](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0098/): The National Science Foundation award to William Marsh Rice University funds READINESS, a cloud accessible robotic laboratory for synthesizing electronic and quantum materials. - [National Science Foundation awards Rice University a cooperative agreement for a self driving laboratory that designs its own semiconductor experiments](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0085/): The National Science Foundation obligated a cooperative agreement to William Marsh Rice University for a test bed called READINESS. - [National Science Foundation awards Texas A and M a national user facility where robots and artificial intelligence design and test new metal alloys](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0086/): The National Science Foundation obligated a cooperative agreement to the Texas A and M Engineering Experiment Station for the Autonomous Robotic Metallurgist Materials Innovation Platform. - [National Science Foundation backs a Texas A&M tool that screens whether an alloy can exist before anyone makes it](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0122/): Texas A&M's College of Engineering published on September 4th, 2026 that the National Science Foundation is funding PhaseForge. - [National Science Foundation funds Rice to let AI propose numerical algorithms only where a proof checker certifies them](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0093/): The National Science Foundation made a standard grant to William Marsh Rice University in Houston on August 17th, 2026. - [National Science Foundation funds Sagebrush, an AI inference platform for researchers nationwide, hosted at UT Austin's supercomputing center](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0199/): The National Science Foundation made a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin under its National AI Research Resource program. - [National Science Foundation funds UT San Antonio and Texas A&M to adapt large language models on machines that can't afford to run them](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0092/): The National Science Foundation made two matched standard grants on August 14th, 2026. They fund a subspace optimization framework for resource efficient and private fine tuning of large language models. - [National Science Foundation funds a five year human and robot co-adaptation center at UT Austin](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0104/): The National Science Foundation made award 2535195 to the University of Texas at Austin on August 25th, 2026. It funds a Science and Technology Center on human and robot co adaptation. - [National Science Foundation funds an open access robot run alloy laboratory at Texas A&M that outside researchers may book](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0090/): The National Science Foundation made a cooperative agreement to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station in College Station. It funds the Autonomous Robotic Metallurgist Materials Innovation Platform. - [National Science Foundation makes Texas Southern University one of five regional nodes in an HBCU network for AI and quantum science](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0197/): The National Science Foundation made a cooperative agreement with Texas Southern University in Houston under its Accelerating Research Translation program. - [National Science Foundation puts UT Austin's supercomputing center in an operating role for the national AI research resource](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0130/): The National Science Foundation announced on September 1st, 2026 that it is establishing an operations center for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource. - [Rice University sets out to hire 40 more AI faculty, for 75 this decade, and to take lab space at The Arc in Houston's Ion District](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0224/): Rice University announced on October 13th, 2026 a universitywide AI initiative. It has hired 35 AI focused faculty in recent years and plans 40 more for a total of 75 this decade. - [Rice University sets out to hire 75 faculty working on AI and plans a research building for it in Houston's Ion District](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0215/): Rice University has launched a universitywide AI initiative. It says 35 of the 75 faculty members it means to recruit to work on AI are already hired and 40 more will follow. - [Science foundation funds a Texas A&M engineering station to build AI digital twins of small water systems](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0149/): The National Science Foundation obligated an award to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station on September 9th, 2026. It sits in the Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation. - [Texas A&M researchers find language models trained on junk social media posts start skipping reasoning steps, and better data doesn't fully fix them](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0223/): Texas A&M Engineering reported on October 19th, 2026 that researchers trained four open language models on mixes of junk and control text drawn from 1 million public Twitter posts. - [Texas A&M takes a $2 million WoodNext Foundation grant to build the Aggie AI Foundry, where AI and robots would design and test new metal alloys](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0229/): Texas A&M's Department of Materials Science and Engineering announced on October 22nd, 2026 a $2 million grant from the WoodNext Foundation. - [Texas State University moves an AI pavement inspection method toward statewide highway use](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0131/): Texas State University published on August 24th, 2026 that its project on artificial intelligence for pavement condition assessment has entered a second phase. - [The Army funds a Rice research center on antenna arrays that carries AI as one of six disciplines](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0099/): The United States Army Research Office established a five year research center at Rice University for secure sensing, imaging and communications. - [The National Science Foundation funds a UT Austin center to put assistive robots into occupied homes, workplaces and care facilities](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0163/): The National Science Foundation has made a Science and Technology Center award to the University of Texas at Austin for the Center for Human and Robot Co-Adaptation. Joydeep Biswas is the principal investigator. - [The National Science Foundation puts Texas Southern University in charge of one of five regional nodes in a new HBCU network for AI and quantum science](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0175/): The National Science Foundation made a cooperative agreement to Texas Southern University in Houston for the HBCU AI and Quantum Innovation Network. - [The National Science Foundation puts the national AI research resource into standing operations, co-run from Austin](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0121/): The National Science Foundation established the NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Operations Center on September 1st, 2026. - [The Texas A&M System's shared AI supercomputer enters the world list at number 66](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0119/): VISION is the Texas A&M University System's shared AI computing platform. The June 2026 TOP500 list credits it to the System rather than to one campus and records a measured Linpack result of 34.82 petaflops against a... - [USDA's Kerrville laboratory builds AI models that pick where, when and how many sterile flies to release against New World screwworm](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0218/): The USDA Agricultural Research Service says it is managing New World screwworm with predictive models. It says the models use advanced analytic tools and artificial intelligence to read ecological, environmental and... - [UT Arlington develops a federally funded AI tutor and tests related technology with Fort Worth police](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0161/): The University of Texas at Arlington published an account on September 10th, 2026 of a project using a National Science Foundation grant to create an AI conversational tutor. - [UT Austin funds four fusion seed grants and says in its own release that the AI method offers limited guarantees](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0123/): The Institute for Fusion Studies, the Oden Institute and the Cockrell School jointly funded four fusion seed grants announced on August 31st, 2026. - [UT San Antonio builds a free training platform where students learn to find the security flaws in code an AI wrote](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0213/): The National Science Foundation funds a UT San Antonio project led by Nishant Vishwamitra of the College of AI, Cyber and Computing. - [UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the chip rather than in the cloud](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0141/): The University of Texas at San Antonio published on September 28th, 2026 that it has a field ready prototype flood warning node. The node is for street level water and the team is led by Chen Pan. - [UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the device instead of a server](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0167/): The University of Texas at San Antonio published an account on September 28th, 2026 of a field ready prototype flood warning node. A team led by an assistant professor of electrical engineering combined four things. - [UT System Board of Regents approved a School of Computing at UT Austin uniting computer science, information, statistics and data sciences](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0031/): 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. - [UT System Board of Regents approves $25 million to finish San Pedro II for UTSA's College of AI, Cyber and Computing](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0040/): 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. - [UTEP and El Paso Water test whether a NASA backed AI model can map flooded streets from satellite images after a storm](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0227/): The University of Texas at El Paso announced on October 8th, 2026 that a team led by Yong Je Kim has received nearly $500,000 from NASA. The money is for a two year project. - [West Texas A&M wins a USDA grant to build a research feedlot near Canyon that will test feeding, health and handling with AI powered methods](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0207/): The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded West Texas A&M University a grant to build a beef cattle research facility. ### State policy - [Amazon selects Austin for a factory building the robotics systems used in its warehouses, and the mayor says no incentives were requested](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0084/): Amazon announced a new manufacturing facility in Austin that will produce the robotics systems used in its fulfillment operations. - [DIR must run an AI regulatory sandbox letting state agencies test systems outside normal rules](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0009/): 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. - [Federal trucking regulators let driverless trucks warn traffic with a cab beacon instead of triangles](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0214/): The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration granted Aurora and other carriers running Level 4 automated trucks a limited five year exemption. - [Houston-Galveston Area Council put AI consulting services on its HGACBuy purchasing catalog under contract AI05-26](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0054/): 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. - [Kodiak and Charger USA start hauling freight between Dallas and Laredo on autonomous trucks with a safety driver behind the wheel](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0209/): Kodiak AI and Charger USA announced on October 8th that trucks running the Kodiak Driver are hauling refrigerated and dry freight. The lane runs between Charger's terminals in Dallas and Laredo. - [Kodiak names Interstate 45 from Dallas to Houston as its first driverless truck lane, and says it closes its safety case before the driver comes out](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0198/): Kodiak AI announced on September 25th, 2026 that its first driverless long-haul lane will run along Interstate 45 between the Dallas and Houston areas. It plans unsupervised service there by the end of 2026. - [Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD's JETI agreement for the Energy Forge One power plant is executed and posted](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0069/): 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. - [Senate Economic Development holds its reset hearing on AI and the Texas workforce on September 22nd](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0109/): The Senate Committee on Economic Development carries an interim charge on preparing the Texas workforce for artificial intelligence. - [Senate Transportation held its August 25th hearing on how driverless vehicles are being deployed under SB 2807](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0077/): The Senate Committee on Transportation posted notice of a public hearing for August 25th, 2026 in the Capitol. One of three interim charges covers the deployment of autonomous vehicle technology authorized by SB 2807 of... - [Senate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs has held both sittings on data center cooling water and published no recommendation](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0096/): The Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs carries an interim charge directing it to examine how much water high consumption cooling technologies use. The charge names data centers. - [SpaceX will build the Terafab semiconductor plant in Grimes County on a state grant and two school district agreements](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0071/): Governor Greg Abbott announced on August 6th, 2026 that SpaceX will construct a vertically integrated semiconductor fabrication plant in Grimes County. - [State technology agency publishes how it is implementing the four AI laws of the 89th Legislature](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0113/): The Texas Department of Information Resources published an account on August 14th, 2026 of how it is implementing the artificial intelligence laws passed by the 89th Legislature. - [Statute requires state agencies and local governments to post standardized notice of AI systems](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0025/): 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. - [TRAIGA in force as Business and Commerce Code Chapter 552, enforceable only by the Attorney General](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0006/): The Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act took effect on January 1st, 2026 as Chapter 552 of the Business and Commerce Code. - [TRAIGA preempts city and county regulation of artificial intelligence](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0012/): Chapter 552 of the Business and Commerce Code supersedes and preempts any local ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation about the use of AI systems. - [Tesla's own capacity table puts the Cybercab in production in Texas and lists the Texas Optimus robot line as still under construction](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0230/): Tesla published its update for the third quarter of 2026 on October 21st. It says the company began putting the Cybercab into its Robotaxi fleet in Austin. - [Texas Government Code Chapter 2054 carries three conflicting Subchapter S's on AI, with duplicated section numbers](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0008/): 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. - [Texas requires AI training for state and local government employees, and this is the first annual cycle](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0097/): House Bill 3512 of the 89th Regular Session created artificial intelligence training programs for certain employees and officials of state agencies and local governments. - [Texas requires a state authorization to run driverless vehicles commercially, with no fee, no expiry and no crash history asked](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0188/): The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles now requires any company running automated vehicles commercially on Texas roads to hold an authorization, under Senate Bill 2807. - [The Fifteenth Court of Appeals leaves Bot Auto free to keep building driverless trucks while TuSimple's successor sues it over trade secrets](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0196/): The Fifteenth Court of Appeals affirmed a Business Court ruling in Harris County that denied CreateAI Holdings a temporary injunction against Bot Auto TX. - [The Hays County Clerk asks the commissioners court to buy AI that writes the county's official minutes](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0169/): The Hays County Commissioners Court agenda for September 15th, 2026 carried an item to authorize the County Clerk's Office to obtain AI Minutes through a vendor. The first year's amount is stated on the agenda. - [The House committee on government efficiency is charged with studying whether the state should use artificial intelligence to find fraud in its own spending](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0089/): The Speaker's interim charges give a charge to the House Committee on Delivery of Government Efficiency. It is to study how the state can use technology to detect fraud and waste and abuse of taxpayer resources. - [The Supreme Court of Texas heard argument on whether a deposition transcript made with AI can stand without a certified court reporter](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0127/): In re Patrick Hughey is a mandamus proceeding filed May 29th, 2025. It began in a Montgomery County wrongful termination suit, where Courthouse News reports the trial court struck a deposition transcript generated with... - [Two Texas House committees take up data centers and AI in health care on August 19th and August 20th](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0073/): The House Committee on State Affairs met on August 19th, 2026 on a charge covering data center development in Texas. That charge names SB 6 and the large load batch study process the grid operator proposed. - [TxDOT starts Project Nexus, a three year state test of next generation aircraft whose first flights carry no passengers](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0205/): The Texas Department of Transportation launched the first phase of Project Nexus on September 10th at Fort Worth Alliance Airport. - [Volvo and Waabi start hauling a customer's freight between Dallas and Houston on autonomous trucks, with an observer in the driver's seat](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0206/): Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Waabi announced on October 5th the start of autonomous operations for Warp, a freight network, in Texas. - [Waymo opens its San Antonio robotaxis to anyone with the app, the airport included, while its flood recall remedy is still listed as under development](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0216/): Waymo opened its San Antonio robotaxi service to anyone with the app on October 14th, 2026, and the service now reaches San Antonio International Airport. ### Surveillance and policing - [Austin City Council adopted Ordinance 20260423-029 creating City Code Chapter 2-19 on surveillance technology](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0030/): 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... - [Austin bars its city manager from buying any park camera or drone that depends on artificial intelligence](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0129/): Austin City Council adopted Resolution No. 20260812-017 on August 12th, 2026. It directs the City Manager to write a Parks Security Implementation Plan. - [College Station City Council votes 4 to 2 to keep its Flock plate reader cameras on state and city roads](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0190/): The College Station City Council voted 4 to 2 on September 24th, 2026 to approve two agreements with Flock Group. - [Comptroller bars state grant money from buying or renewing Flock cameras and other license plate readers](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0226/): Texas Comptroller Don Huffines announced a ban on October 13th, 2026. State grant money may no longer buy or contract for Flock cameras, automated license plate readers and other vehicle identification systems. - [Conroe City Council fell short of the votes needed to put its Flock camera contract on the November ballot](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0055/): 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. - [Dallas Public Safety Committee sets a briefing on the police Flock plate reader program](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0116/): The Dallas City Council Public Safety Committee has put an update on the Dallas Police Department's Flock automated license plate reader program on its September 8th, 2026 agenda. - [Dallas issues its first code citations from the AI cameras on its brush trucks](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0179/): The City of Dallas put AI enabled cameras on its sanitation brush trucks to photograph parcels from the public right of way and flag code violations. - [El Paso City Council orders Flock plate reader cameras off city property and bars new contracts without a further vote](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0147/): The El Paso City Council took up two items filed by members of the council at its September 15th, 2026 meeting. The published minutes now carry what each amendment changed. - [El Paso passes two plate reader items as revised, filed to take city-sited readers down and bar new contracts](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0174/): The El Paso City Council passed two items on September 15th, 2026, and its own meeting record marks each one approved as revised. The text of the revisions is not on that record. - [Governor orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock plate reader cameras](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0111/): The Governor's office ordered every Texas state agency to pause funding for Flock automated license plate reader cameras, and confirmed the order on August 28th, 2026. - [Guadalupe County Commissioners Court unanimously approves ending the county's Flock Safety license plate reader contract](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0036/): 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. - [Harris County Commissioners Court renewed its Flock Group license plate reader and sound detection contract, then amended it to run county-wide](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0049/): 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. - [Hays County posts the sheriff's promise not to switch on AI report writing without coming back to the court](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0168/): The Hays County Commissioners Court agenda for September 1st, 2026 carried an item acknowledging that the Hays County Sheriff's Office had committed not to activate or implement Axon Draft One. - [Hays County takes up a policy on how it governs AI in surveillance](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0170/): The Hays County Commissioners Court agenda for September 8th, 2026 carried an item on how the county governs its own use of artificial intelligence in surveillance. - [Homeland Security tested facial biometric capture on pedestrians walking out of the country at the Progreso International Bridge](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0120/): The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate brought industry partners to the Progreso International Bridge in Hidalgo County to demonstrate facial biometric image capture for U.S. - [League City City Council ordered a November 3rd special election on whether police may keep using automated license plate reader cameras](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0048/): 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. - [Leander stops paying for its plate reader contract and says the police department is no longer using the cameras or the data](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0180/): The Leander City Council directed the city to discontinue funding its contract with the automated license plate recognition vendor Flock at its September 3rd, 2026 meeting. - [Pflugerville orders a November election on charter amendments, one of them a section on the city's use of artificial intelligence](https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0075/): The Pflugerville City Council approved on second reading on August 11th, 2026 an ordinance ordering a special election on November 3rd, 2026 on amendments to the city's home rule charter. ## Feeds - [RSS](https://texasaidocket.com/feed.xml) - [Atom](https://texasaidocket.com/atom.xml) - [JSON Feed](https://texasaidocket.com/feed.json) ## Data - [Every decision as Markdown, one fetch](https://texasaidocket.com/llms-full.txt) - [Grid Watch as JSON](https://texasaidocket.com/gridwatch.json) - [Water Watch as JSON](https://texasaidocket.com/waterwatch.json)