What kind of decision each one is
The topic each entry is filed under. Answered here for 167 of the decisions on the record, from the same fields the decision page prints.
A Houston oil producer buys into an AI vendor and commits its Ward County operations to the vendor's system. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
A Texas Senate committee set a hearing on how much water data center cooling uses and whether local water providers are told. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
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. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
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. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
A machine scores the longer written answers on English STAAR first. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
A statewide poll finds most Texas voters oppose a data center in their own community for a second survey running. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
A three campus Texas trial tests whether a phone microphone held to the abdomen can count fetal movement by machine. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
Amarillo City Council authorizes a twenty year water supply agreement selling city water to Fermi America's Project Matador. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
Amazon and Wiwynn say they will expand the El Paso County plant that builds the racks going into AI data centers. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Amazon selects Austin for a factory building the robotics systems used in its warehouses, and the mayor says no incentives were requested. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
An MD Anderson and UT Medical Branch MRI model scored lower on patients it was not built on. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
Angelina County Commissioners Court adopts Resolution 010-26 asking the Legislature for authority over data centers. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Archer County Commissioners Court unanimously denies a tax abatement for a Dynamo Ventures data center. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Asked for AI camera fire detections, Xcel counted cameras. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
Austin City Council adopted Ordinance 20260423-029 creating City Code Chapter 2-19 on surveillance technology. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Austin City Council takes up a resolution to amend the land code for data centers. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Austin City Council takes up a resolution to write data centers into a land development code that has no definition of one. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Austin bars its city manager from buying any park camera or drone that depends on artificial intelligence. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Blanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation District signed a resolution asking the Legislature to clarify district authority over data centers. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
Brazoria County Commissioners Court adopted a resolution stating conditions it wants on data center development. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Brazoria County Commissioners Court voted 5 to 0 to deny the reinvestment zone that four data center and power plant abatement applications depended on. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Brazos County Commissioners Court assigns the RELLIS data center tax abatement to ThisWay Global after the original developer's bankruptcy. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Brownsville takes up a temporary moratorium on data centers after staff tells the commission its code has no rules for them. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Carson County Commissioners Court approves a phased tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Case managers beat Houston Methodist's discharge AI on the last day. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
City of Taylor's notice of an amended Compal tax abatement is no longer posted, and no outcome is published. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
College Station City Council votes 4 to 2 to keep its Flock plate reader cameras on state and city roads. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Comptroller's JETI current agreements list contains no data center project. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Conroe City Council fell short of the votes needed to put its Flock camera contract on the November ballot. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Corpus Christi City Council directed staff to write a zoning amendment prohibiting data centers in every zoning district and to prepare a moratorium process. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
DIR must run an AI regulatory sandbox letting state agencies test systems outside normal rules. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
Dallas Public Safety Committee sets a briefing on the police Flock plate reader program. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Dallas issues its first code citations from the AI cameras on its brush trucks. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Denton City Council takes up a data center moratorium resolution and a schedule of the public hearings it would require. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
ERCOT starts sending the Batch Zero questionnaires, and a data center that does not answer comes off the list. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
ERCOT tells its board that AI training loads can fatigue grid generators and drafts a limit on how fast their power draw may swing. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
El Paso City Council adopted a letter asking Governor Abbott to clarify his data center directives. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
El Paso City Council adopts a Data Center Policy Framework requiring a Special Permit for hyperscale projects. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
El Paso City Council amends its state legislative agenda to seek protection for residential ratepayers from data center utility costs. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
El Paso City Council approves two plate reader items as revised, with the amendment text unpublished. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
El Paso passes two plate reader items as revised, filed to take city-sited readers down and bar new contracts. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Energy Department funds a synthetic underground test pit at a Navasota drilling site to prove out mining automation. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
Energy Department research arm funds a Houston led team using AI to search for new magnet materials. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
FAA takes comment until October 11th on letting Zipline fly drone deliveries around the clock over five Texas metros. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under defense and federal.
Federal comment window has closed on NRC reactor licensing and siting modernization. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under defense and federal.
Federal comment window has closed on adding AI questions to the American Time Use Survey. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
Federal commodities regulator opens comment on trading derivatives whose underlying commodity is compute. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under defense and federal.
Federal energy department opens comment on securing the grid and names AI as why demand grew, closing October 9th. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under defense and federal.
Federal investigators opened a defect evaluation into a driverless system after crashes in Dallas and Austin. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under defense and federal.
Federal regulators open an audit of how Tesla certified the Cybercab, on the day commercial deployment began in Austin. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under defense and federal.
Federal survey office asks whether the household internet survey should start measuring AI use, closing November 9th. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under defense and federal.
Fort Worth City Council unanimously began a 90 day data center moratorium and adopted grid filing requirements over one dissent. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
Four Texas campuses took roles in the Energy Department's AI for science program. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
Frontera's queues close permanently on October 1st, 2026. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
Governor Abbott directs the utility commission and ERCOT to audit every data center in the interconnection queue before any advances. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Governor directs the environmental agency to issue no data center permits until the grid audit is done. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
Governor directs the water board to enforce the state water use survey against data centers that did not return it. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
Governor orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock plate reader cameras. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Grid operator asks the water board's questions and gives data centers until October 12th. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
Grid operator weighs a year's grace for data center cooling equipment on ride-through rules. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
Guadalupe County Commissioners Court unanimously approves ending the county's Flock Safety license plate reader contract. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Harlingen Waterworks System board approves an effluent water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a proposed data center. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
Harris County Commissioners Court renewed its Flock Group license plate reader and sound detection contract, then amended it to run county-wide. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Hays County Commissioners Court adopted a 180-day emergency water review period for high water use developments and created a review board. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
Hays County posts the sheriff's promise not to switch on AI report writing without coming back to the court. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Hays County takes up a policy on how it governs AI in surveillance. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Homeland Security tested facial biometric capture on pedestrians walking out of the country at the Progreso International Bridge. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
House Public Health held an interim hearing on artificial intelligence use in health care. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
House State Affairs held an interim hearing on data center development and the proposed 765 kV transmission lines. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Houston ISD carried an artificial intelligence board policy to a second reading. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
Houston Methodist put an imaging AI in front of its radiologists and says out loud that it is imperfect. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
Houston academic physician group moves from two ambient AI pilots toward one unified documentation platform. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
Houston-Galveston Area Council put AI consulting services on its HGACBuy purchasing catalog under contract AI05-26. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
Judges back El Paso Electric's gas plant for Meta only if other customers don't pay. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Justice Department takes comment on a judgment barring a Frisco apartment manager from rent software fed by rivals' data. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under defense and federal.
Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a conditional use permit for a $30 million ONMINE data center. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Laredo City Council declined a data center moratorium, and its direction to write permanent rules has reached three agendas with no recorded action. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
League City City Council ordered a November 3rd special election on whether police may keep using automated license plate reader cameras. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Leander stops paying for its plate reader contract and says the police department is no longer using the cameras or the data. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Lubbock County Commissioners Court passes a non binding disclosure resolution on large scale industrial development, four to one. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Lubbock starts the procedure for a 90 day data center moratorium after the 18 month petition fails. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Memorial Hermann clinicians send Houston patients an AI drafted explanation of their own test results. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
NSF awarded Prairie View A and M a grant to let AI split up the grid optimization problem across processor cores. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
NSF awarded UT Austin a grant to replace hand written robot safety rules with a model trained on demonstrated safe behavior. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
NSF funds a Rice laboratory where a model designs the experiment and a robot runs it, bookable from anywhere. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
National Science Foundation awards Rice University a cooperative agreement for a self driving laboratory that designs its own semiconductor experiments. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
National Science Foundation awards Texas A and M a national user facility where robots and artificial intelligence design and test new metal alloys. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
National Science Foundation backs a Texas A&M tool that screens whether an alloy can exist before anyone makes it. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
National Science Foundation funds Rice to let AI propose numerical algorithms only where a proof checker certifies them. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
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. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
National Science Foundation funds a five year human and robot co-adaptation center at UT Austin. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
National Science Foundation funds an open access robot run alloy laboratory at Texas A&M that outside researchers may book. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
National Science Foundation names UT El Paso in the first round of CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service awards. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
National Science Foundation puts UT Austin's supercomputing center in an operating role for the national AI research resource. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
PUCT Docket 59029, Oncor application for a second 765 kV line across ten west Texas counties. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
PUCT Docket 59315, Oncor application for a 765 kV transmission line across 22 counties. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
PUCT Project 58000, rulemaking to update ERCOT transmission cost recovery, comment deadline reached. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
PUCT Project 58482, proposed new rule on Large Load Demand Management Service, comment window now shut. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
PUCT adopts the SB 6 large load interconnection rule, requires $50,000 per megawatt of security and drops the interconnection fee. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
PUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
PUCT opens the first five year review of the ERCOT system-wide offer caps, with comments due September 17th. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
PUCT told an Armstrong County AI data center to shed its whole load, then left those conditions in place. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
PUCT wildfire plan blueprint lists cameras suggested, not required. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD's JETI agreement for the Energy Forge One power plant is executed and posted. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
Pflugerville orders a November election on charter amendments, one of them a section on the city's use of artificial intelligence. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under surveillance and policing.
Reeves County Emergency Services District No. 2 takes up a Chapter 312 abatement for a gas plant built to run data centers. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
Richardson ISD drafts a legislative ask that puts classroom AI guidance first. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
San Angelo City Council caps data center cooling water by ordinance. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
San Angelo sets reporting rules for data center coolant discharged into the city sewer. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
San Angelo writes data centers into its zoning code and makes them a conditional use only. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
San Marcos City Council voted 4 to 3 to define data centers in its land development code and make them ineligible citywide. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
Science foundation funds a Texas A&M engineering station to build AI digital twins of small water systems. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
Senate Economic Development holds its reset hearing on AI and the Texas workforce on September 22nd. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
Senate Transportation held its August 25th hearing on how driverless vehicles are being deployed under SB 2807. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
Senate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs has held both sittings on data center cooling water and published no recommendation. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
SpaceX will build the Terafab semiconductor plant in Grimes County on a state grant and two school district agreements. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
State technology agency publishes how it is implementing the four AI laws of the 89th Legislature. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
Statute requires state agencies and local governments to post standardized notice of AI systems. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
TCEQ canceled the Carson County public meeting on Fermi Equipment Holdco's new air permits and says it will be rescheduled. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
TCEQ canceled the San Antonio notice and comment hearing on Vantage Data Centers TX11's air permit O4791. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
TCEQ has four data center air permit applications posted with published public notices, including Crusoe's two Texas campuses. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
TCEQ issues preliminary decision and opens comment on Crusoe's gas power plant at the Abilene data center campus. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
TRAIGA in force as Business and Commerce Code Chapter 552, enforceable only by the Attorney General. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
TRAIGA preempts city and county regulation of artificial intelligence. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
Tarrant Regional Water District says it has signed no water supply contract for a data center and that the Cedar Creek request was withdrawn. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
Temple Planning and Zoning Commission takes up a Unified Development Code amendment that would require a Conditional Use Permit for every future data center. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Texas A&M tells its campus to run AI through a university portal rather than a public chatbot. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
Texas Children's and UT Southwestern radiologists publish that imaging AI has largely skipped children. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
Texas Government Code Chapter 2054 carries three conflicting Subchapter S's on AI, with duplicated section numbers. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
Texas State University moves an AI pavement inspection method toward statewide highway use. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
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. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
Texas requires AI training for state and local government employees, and this is the first annual cycle. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
Texas requires a state authorization to run driverless vehicles commercially, with no fee, no expiry and no crash history asked. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
The Army funds a Rice research center on antenna arrays that carries AI as one of six disciplines. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
The Hays County Clerk asks the commissioners court to buy AI that writes the county's official minutes. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
The House committee on government efficiency is charged with studying whether the state should use artificial intelligence to find fraud in its own spending. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
The National Science Foundation funds a Texas A&M project to build AI digital twins of small and mid-sized water systems. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under land, water and permitting.
The National Science Foundation funds a UT Austin center to put assistive robots into occupied homes, workplaces and care facilities. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
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. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
The National Science Foundation puts the national AI research resource into standing operations, co-run from Austin. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
The Supreme Court of Texas will hear argument on October 6th in a mandamus proceeding the court reporters' association has entered. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
The Texas A&M System's shared AI supercomputer enters the world list at number 66. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
The University of North Texas takes a twenty million dollar gift and names a college of artificial intelligence after the donors. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
The University of Texas at Austin requires every course syllabus to state its AI policy. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
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. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
The grid operator sends every conditionally classified large load a questionnaire, with a notarized attestation and ten business days to answer. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
The grid operator sets an October 6th workshop on how it would curtail a large load under Senate Bill 6. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
The grid operator tells providers which large loads it has provisionally placed in Batch Zero, and every placement carries a condition. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
Tom Green County Commissioners Court declines a Precinct 4 moratorium on data centers and large energy projects. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Two Texas House committees take up data centers and AI in health care on August 19th and August 20th. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under state policy.
UT Arlington builds a federally funded AI tutor that withholds the answer and helps build Fort Worth police training on the same method. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
UT Arlington replaces its business analytics degrees with artificial intelligence degrees. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
UT Austin funds four fusion seed grants and says in its own release that the AI method offers limited guarantees. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
UT Austin puts a computer science and AI course in the core every undergraduate takes. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the chip rather than in the cloud. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the device instead of a server. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
UT Southwestern says AI now does most of the grading on its medical students' clinical exam notes. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
UT System Board of Regents approved a School of Computing at UT Austin uniting computer science, information, statistics and data sciences. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
UT System Board of Regents approves $25 million to finish San Pedro II for UTSA's College of AI, Cyber and Computing. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under research and science.
UT System Regents put the first billion dollars of the UT Dell Medical Center into the capital program. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
UTMB moved its Epic health record into Microsoft's cloud and named advanced technologies as the reason. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
University of North Texas opens an undergraduate artificial intelligence degree. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under health and education.
Utilities Code limits how the PUCT may direct ERCOT, and bars verbal directives. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
Utility commission approves a 765 kilovolt line from Somervell County to Howard County. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under power and the grid.
Wichita Falls Planning and Zoning Commission approves a conditional use permit for a DataNovaX data center on Airport Drive. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Williamson County Commissioners Court granted Compal USA Technology a Chapter 312 abatement for a Georgetown server service center. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
Young County Commissioners Court receives the Project Saltworks tax abatement application and ratifies a developer funded escrow for consultants. What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.