How the public can take part
The room each decision is being made in, and what that room allows. Answered here for 162 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. Can the public take part?
A company announcement of its own investment carries no comment window and no public docket. Battalion Oil Corporation is listed on NYSE American, so its material transactions reach the public through securities filings. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
A Texas Senate committee set a hearing on how much water data center cooling uses and whether local water providers are told. Can the public take part?
The committee posts its notice with the room, the hour and the charge before it meets. The notice says the committee will hear invited and public testimony and it limits each speaker to two minutes. It also told anyone submitting written testimony to give 15 copies to the committee clerk and email a digital copy to the address the notice prints. That route was open for the hearing the notice set and nothing fetched here describes a window after it.
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. Can the public take part?
The company publishes the account on the newswire it uses for shareholder announcements. A reader who wants to act on a classification goes to the grid operator's dispute route rather than to the company. That route is open to the interconnecting entity rather than to the public. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
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. Can the public take part?
The Board of Regents publishes its agenda book before each meeting, and the contract sits in it as consent agenda item 65. The schedule for the August 12th and 13th, 2026 meeting opens with a public hearing opportunity at 1:00 p.m. on the first day. A consent agenda is the part of a meeting taken up together without separate discussion. A member of the public who wants an item discussed has to ask before the meeting rather than during it. Minutes for this meeting are not yet posted.
A machine scores the longer written answers on English STAAR first. Can the public take part?
A parent or guardian who has concerns about a score on a constructed response can raise them with the district's testing staff. The district files the rescore request in the state's testing system within a set window. A rescore is done by a human scorer. The request carries a fee, and the fee is waived when the score changes. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
A statewide poll finds most Texas voters oppose a data center in their own community for a second survey running. Can the public take part?
The project publishes its own results and its field dates and its margin of error. It points readers to a summary document carrying the detailed methodology. This is a measurement rather than a proceeding. No room is open and nothing is being decided here. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
A three campus Texas trial tests whether a phone microphone held to the abdomen can count fetal movement by machine. Can the public take part?
The registration is public and carries the study design, the sponsor and every participating site. Enrollment is through the campuses themselves rather than through any public window. The study page carries the registry record in readable form, with the eligibility criteria and the contact for enquiries. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Amarillo City Council authorizes a twenty year water supply agreement selling city water to Fermi America's Project Matador. Can the public take part?
The council took public comment before the vote. The City of Amarillo maintains a Fermi Project page carrying the final water supply agreement, the non binding memorandum of understanding and an FAQ. A resident can read the executed terms rather than a summary of them.
Amazon and Wiwynn say they will expand the El Paso County plant that builds the racks going into AI data centers. Can the public take part?
Neither release names a vote, a hearing or a public body acting on this. A resident who wants a say goes to the City of Socorro or El Paso County, either of which would hear a zoning or abatement matter if one is brought. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Amazon selects Austin for a factory building the robotics systems used in its warehouses, and the mayor says no incentives were requested. Can the public take part?
No public comment period attaches to a private siting decision. Austin City Council meetings are the room where any city action on the site would be taken, and the company's announcement states no city incentive was sought. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
An MD Anderson and UT Medical Branch MRI model scored lower on patients it was not built on. Can the public take part?
The paper is published in the American Journal of Neuroradiology. The abstract, the figures it reports and the author affiliations are readable without a subscription through the National Library of Medicine. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Angelina County Commissioners Court adopts Resolution 010-26 asking the Legislature for authority over data centers. Can the public take part?
Angelina County posts Commissioners Court agendas, minutes and meeting videos on its Commissioners Court page. The court meets in the courtroom and annex at 211 East Shepherd Avenue in Lufkin. Judge Wright told residents every decision has to be made by the court in public.
Archer County Commissioners Court unanimously denies a tax abatement for a Dynamo Ventures data center. Can the public take part?
The Commissioners Court heard residents in open session before the vote. County officials told opponents to take their case to state lawmakers, because the county has no further tool once an abatement is off the table.
Asked for AI camera fire detections, Xcel counted cameras. Can the public take part?
The plan is approved and the report is filed. Both are public on the commission's filing system, the order in Docket 57463 and the annual report in Project 57941. A reader with a question about either can contact the commission. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Austin City Council adopted Ordinance 20260423-029 creating City Code Chapter 2-19 on surveillance technology. Can the public take part?
Austin posts the full agenda and every backup document for each council meeting at austintexas.gov/council. That includes the two draft ordinances, the redline and the individual council members' motion sheets. Council meetings are public. Under the new chapter a department's proposed surveillance technology comes back to council as its own agenda item.
Austin City Council takes up a resolution to amend the land code for data centers. Can the public take part?
Austin City Council meets in open session and posts every agenda and each item's full text. A member of the public may sign up to speak on an agendaed item. A draft ordinance would come back to council for a separate decision before anything in the land development code changes.
Austin City Council takes up a resolution to write data centers into a land development code that has no definition of one. Can the public take part?
Austin City Council regular meetings are open to the public and the city posts each item with its backup documents ahead of the meeting. Item 61 carries a draft resolution, a memo and two motion sheets as posted backup, so a reader can see the proposed text before the vote rather than after it.
Austin bars its city manager from buying any park camera or drone that depends on artificial intelligence. Can the public take part?
The progress update is owed to the Council Climate, Water, Environment, and Parks Committee, whose meetings are posted on the city's council calendar and are open to the public. The executed resolution is published in the city's document system and can be read in full.
Blanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation District signed a resolution asking the Legislature to clarify district authority over data centers. Can the public take part?
District board meetings are held at 601 West Main Street in Johnson City. The district posts the agenda, minutes and every signed resolution and board order for each meeting on its website. Phone 830-868-9196.
Brazoria County Commissioners Court adopted a resolution stating conditions it wants on data center development. Can the public take part?
Agendas, agenda packets, minutes and the signed resolution attachment are published on the county's Legistar site. The next posted meeting on that site is a Special Session on August 25th, 2026 at 9:00 AM.
Brazoria County Commissioners Court voted 5 to 0 to deny the reinvestment zone that four data center and power plant abatement applications depended on. Can the public take part?
Commissioners Court meetings, agendas, agenda packets and minutes are published through the county's Legistar site. The site lists a Special Session on August 25th, 2026 at 9:00 AM as the next posted meeting after a Regular Session on August 11th, 2026.
Brazos County Commissioners Court assigns the RELLIS data center tax abatement to ThisWay Global after the original developer's bankruptcy. Can the public take part?
The Commissioners Court meets in the Commissioners Courtroom of the Brazos County Administration Building at 200 S. Texas Avenue, Suite 106, in Bryan. The county posts its Tax Code notices to its own news feed.
Brownsville takes up a temporary moratorium on data centers after staff tells the commission its code has no rules for them. Can the public take part?
The Brownsville City Commission meets in open session, posts its own account of each meeting and publishes the video. A resident can watch the item and can speak at a commission meeting. A moratorium ordinance would come back to the commission through further public proceedings before it took effect.
Carson County Commissioners Court approves a phased tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus. Can the public take part?
The commissioners approved the agreement during a public meeting at which residents raised water use and nuclear questions. The Commissioners Court is the venue for any further phase approvals under the agreement.
Case managers beat Houston Methodist's discharge AI on the last day. Can the public take part?
The study is published open access and can be read in full, with its methods and its table of results. A hospital's choice of a clinical software tool is not a public proceeding and there is no room a resident can attend. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
City of Taylor's notice of an amended Compal tax abatement is no longer posted, and no outcome is published. Can the public take part?
The city's notice is no longer posted at the address it was published to. The council meeting it named has passed and the city has published no record of what was decided that a reader can read. The minutes posted for that meeting are a scanned image with no text in them. A reader who wants the outcome has to ask the city secretary.
College Station City Council votes 4 to 2 to keep its Flock plate reader cameras on state and city roads. Can the public take part?
The agreements were approved at a regular council meeting. Residents can speak on any agenda item at a future council meeting or contact council members through the city's website. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Comptroller's JETI current agreements list contains no data center project. Can the public take part?
The list is published for inspection and is not a proceeding. JETI applications are filed with and acted on by individual school districts. The participation point for a resident is their own district's board meeting when an application is before it. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Conroe City Council fell short of the votes needed to put its Flock camera contract on the November ballot. Can the public take part?
Conroe City Council meets at City Hall, 300 W. Davis St, Conroe, TX 77301. A resident who wants to speak completes a Citizen Inquiry Form available outside the Council Chambers. It goes to the Police Officer before the meeting begins. Speakers are limited to 3 minutes each and preference goes to those addressing agenda items.
Corpus Christi City Council directed staff to write a zoning amendment prohibiting data centers in every zoning district and to prepare a moratorium process. Can the public take part?
The city publishes agendas, minutes and live video through its Legistar agenda program and streams meetings on the city's YouTube channel. The agendas and minutes page links a Public Comment Procedures page and gives 3-1-1 or 361-826-2489 for help. Staff recommendations on the data center code amendment come back to a future council meeting.
DIR must run an AI regulatory sandbox letting state agencies test systems outside normal rules. Can the public take part?
The application process runs to vendors registered with DIR rather than to the general public. The statute provides no public comment step. The public visibility point is the report the department owes the Legislature by November 30th, 2026. A reader can ask DIR for the vendor application process and for any quarterly reports already filed. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Dallas Public Safety Committee sets a briefing on the police Flock plate reader program. Can the public take part?
The Public Safety Committee meets in open session at Dallas City Hall and the city streams it. The agenda and the item's own record are published in advance through the city's legislative portal, so a resident can read what will be presented before the room fills.
Dallas issues its first code citations from the AI cameras on its brush trucks. Can the public take part?
The program comes back to a Dallas City Council committee on October 19th, 2026 for a briefing by the city manager. Council committee meetings are posted and open, and the December 2025 Finance Committee presentation that set the program's terms is published on the city's own site.
Denton City Council takes up a data center moratorium resolution and a schedule of the public hearings it would require. Can the public take part?
Denton City Council meetings are open to the public and the city publishes its agendas and legislative records through its own legislative portal. The resolution itself would set the schedule for the notice and public hearings a moratorium requires.
ERCOT starts sending the Batch Zero questionnaires, and a data center that does not answer comes off the list. Can the public take part?
The verification runs between the grid operator and the interconnecting entities through ERCOT's own platform, so there is no comment window on it. ERCOT publishes its market notices openly and lists a contact on each one. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
ERCOT tells its board that AI training loads can fatigue grid generators and drafts a limit on how fast their power draw may swing. Can the public take part?
The board meeting the presentation was made to is open to the public and it has now been held. The revision request the presentation names, PGRR144, keeps a public page on the grid operator's market rules site. That page lists every vote taken on it and what body takes it next, which is now the Public Utility Commission of Texas. The draft rule on power variation has no number and no filing date yet. Nothing on it can be commented on until it is submitted, so there is no window a reader can act in today. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
El Paso City Council adopted a letter asking Governor Abbott to clarify his data center directives. Can the public take part?
The council has acted and the letter goes to the Governor's office. The agenda, the item record and the matter's action history stay published in the city's Legistar system, where a resident can read who moved the item and who seconded it.
El Paso City Council adopts a Data Center Policy Framework requiring a Special Permit for hyperscale projects. Can the public take part?
Implementation returns to City Council as ordinance amendments and Special Permit applications. Each carries public notice, a City Plan Commission hearing and a council vote. Agendas and matter records are published in the city's Legistar system. Council meets in Council Chambers at City Hall, 300 North Campbell Street, and virtually.
El Paso City Council amends its state legislative agenda to seek protection for residential ratepayers from data center utility costs. Can the public take part?
The city's state legislative agenda is set and amended in open City Council meetings at City Hall, 300 North Campbell Street, and virtually. Matter records and votes are published in the city's Legistar system.
El Paso City Council approves two plate reader items as revised, with the amendment text unpublished. Can the public take part?
The meeting has been held and the council's own page for it stays public. That page lists both items, the action taken on each and the result. The written minutes are marked final and are not published there yet. The text of the amendments can't be read from that page today. The meeting video is linked from the same page. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
El Paso passes two plate reader items as revised, filed to take city-sited readers down and bar new contracts. Can the public take part?
The council's agendas, dispositions and meeting video are published on the city's own legislative portal and the meetings are open. The second direction requires the city attorney to return a resolution to the council within 30 days. The follow up reaches a public agenda rather than staying inside the building.
Energy Department funds a synthetic underground test pit at a Navasota drilling site to prove out mining automation. Can the public take part?
The department publishes the announcement naming the four projects. There is no comment window and no public proceeding attached to the selection. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Energy Department research arm funds a Houston led team using AI to search for new magnet materials. Can the public take part?
The university publishes its own account of the award and names the agency alongside the partners. No public body is taking comment on it. A researcher reaches the work through the named principal investigators. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Federal comment window has closed on NRC reactor licensing and siting modernization. Can the public take part?
The comment window on this decision has closed. The deciding body is still named on the item page and is still reachable.
Federal comment window has closed on adding AI questions to the American Time Use Survey. Can the public take part?
The comment window on this decision has closed. The deciding body is still named on the item page and is still reachable.
Federal investigators opened a defect evaluation into a driverless system after crashes in Dallas and Austin. Can the public take part?
The resume is published in the agency's investigation document store and can be read in full. There is no comment window and no hearing attached to a preliminary evaluation. The agency's own investigation search pages would not answer a request this run, so a reader wanting today's status has to go to the agency directly. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Federal regulators open an audit of how Tesla certified the Cybercab, on the day commercial deployment began in Austin. Can the public take part?
The agency publishes the opening resume for the audit and the link here reaches it. Anyone can read the scope, the docket number and the estimated population in the agency's own words. An audit query takes no public comment, so there is no window to file into and no hearing to attend. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Fort Worth City Council unanimously began a 90 day data center moratorium and adopted grid filing requirements over one dissent. Can the public take part?
The moratorium requires further public hearings and votes before adoption, so residents can speak at the scheduled Fort Worth City Council hearings ahead of the second reading. The newly created commission adds a second public body to address.
Four Texas campuses took roles in the Energy Department's AI for science program. Can the public take part?
The awards are made. Each university publishes its own account of what it won and who leads it.
Frontera's queues close permanently on October 1st, 2026. Can the public take part?
The center publishes both user guides itself. A researcher can read the closing date and the access rule rather than infer either one. Horizon's guide names the three allocation routes a request would go through. Anyone with work on Frontera reaches the center through its own portal and its ticket system. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Governor Abbott directs the utility commission and ERCOT to audit every data center in the interconnection queue before any advances. Can the public take part?
The commission carries this out in its own open meetings. Its calendar feed lists them as open to the public in Commissioners Hearing Room 7-100 in Austin. The August 20th, 2026 meeting took up ERCOT's request for a good cause exception as item 22 and granted it. The next meeting the calendar feed lists for this work is December 17th, 2026, the one the audit's own schedule points at. A commission agenda opens with a public comment period on any matter within the commission's jurisdiction, with speakers limited to three minutes each. Subscribing to the calendar feed is the way to see an item before it is taken up rather than after.
Governor directs the environmental agency to issue no data center permits until the grid audit is done. Can the public take part?
The directive is published in full on the Governor's own newsroom, with a link to the letter it was sent under. No comment window attaches to a directive. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is the reachable party on how it will apply this to a pending permit. Its agenda and public hearings are posted on its own site. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Governor directs the water board to enforce the state water use survey against data centers that did not return it. Can the public take part?
The directive is published in full on the Governor's own newsroom, with a link to the letter it was sent under. No comment window attaches to a directive. The Texas Water Development Board is the reachable party on how it will enforce, and its board meetings are posted on its own calendar. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Governor orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock plate reader cameras. Can the public take part?
The Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority publishes its board meetings and posts an agenda for each one. The newest meeting on that page is dated July 24th, 2026 and no future one is listed. No posted date exists on which a further grant could be taken up.
Grid operator asks the water board's questions and gives data centers until October 12th. Can the public take part?
The notice is published in full on the grid operator's own market notice archive and names an address for questions about the request. The window is not a public comment window. It is a response requirement on named data center developers, filed for them by their transmission or distribution provider. A member of the public reads the notice and waits for the report the operator says it will publish. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Grid operator weighs a year's grace for data center cooling equipment on ride-through rules. Can the public take part?
The grid operator publishes the revision request, its comments and its stage on a public page, and the reliability and operations subcommittee that takes it next meets in public. Comments filed on it are posted beside the request.
Guadalupe County Commissioners Court unanimously approves ending the county's Flock Safety license plate reader contract. Can the public take part?
Guadalupe County Commissioners Court meets in Seguin and publishes agendas and minutes on the county website. The county page states that members of the public may participate and address the governmental body during any telephonic meeting, and it publishes the Zoom connection details alongside the agendas.
Harlingen Waterworks System board approves an effluent water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a proposed data center. Can the public take part?
The Harlingen Waterworks System board meets in open session and posts agendas and minutes on hwws.com. The Harlingen City Commission has taken up the same subject in its own open meetings, where residents may sign up to speak.
Harris County Commissioners Court renewed its Flock Group license plate reader and sound detection contract, then amended it to run county-wide. Can the public take part?
Commissioners Court meets at 1001 Preston Street, 1st Floor, Houston, TX 77002. A member of the public who wants to address the court submits an Appearance Request Form. The agenda site lists a Special Meeting on August 17th, 2026 and a Business Court Meeting on August 25th, 2026, both at 9:00 AM. It also offers agenda search and email delivery.
Hays County Commissioners Court adopted a 180-day emergency water review period for high water use developments and created a review board. Can the public take part?
Hays County Commissioners Court meetings are public, live streamed and archived, and the County Clerk records the minutes. Agendas and minutes are posted on the county website, and the review board created by the resolution reports back to the court in open session.
Hays County posts the sheriff's promise not to switch on AI report writing without coming back to the court. Can the public take part?
The agenda is published in full on the county's own agenda portal and the meeting it was set for has been held. The item's own condition is what a reader watches. The September 1st, 8th and 15th agendas are readable on a public agenda portal. The county's Court Minutes 2026 archive is public and carries nothing later than July 28th. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Hays County takes up a policy on how it governs AI in surveillance. Can the public take part?
The agenda is published in full on the county's own agenda portal and the meeting has been held. The text of the policy statement the item names is not attached to the agenda entry. What it would have required can't be read from that page. The court posts its agendas in advance of every meeting. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Homeland Security tested facial biometric capture on pedestrians walking out of the country at the Progreso International Bridge. Can the public take part?
The directorate publishes the account of the test, names the division that ran it and names the Customs and Border Protection office that asked for it. No comment window, hearing or docket is open on this work. A traveler at the crossing is told by signs in English and Spanish that a United States citizen may opt out, and an opt-out lane is provided. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
House Public Health held an interim hearing on artificial intelligence use in health care. Can the public take part?
The hearing has been held. The committee clerk is named on the Legislature's committee meetings page with a phone number and a room. That page is where the hearing notice, the minutes, the witness list and the handouts are posted as they are filed. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
House State Affairs held an interim hearing on data center development and the proposed 765 kV transmission lines. Can the public take part?
The hearing has been held. The committee clerk is named on the Legislature's committee meetings page with a phone number and a room. That page is where the hearing notice, the minutes, the witness list and the handouts are posted as they are filed. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Houston ISD carried an artificial intelligence board policy to a second reading. Can the public take part?
Board meetings are held at 5:00 PM in the Board Auditorium and Board Services Conference Room, and agendas, attachments and minutes are posted in the district's Legistar meeting detail pages. The draft minutes for August 13th, 2026 will show whether the policy was adopted once they are finalized.
Houston Methodist put an imaging AI in front of its radiologists and says out loud that it is imperfect. Can the public take part?
A private hospital system's purchasing decision carries no public participation step. The system publishes its own account of what the tool does and where it is running.
Houston academic physician group moves from two ambient AI pilots toward one unified documentation platform. Can the public take part?
The practice is a private academic group and the decision was reported in its medical school's own published account of an internal meeting. No public comment period, hearing or vote is attached to it. McGovern Medical School publishes contact details for its communications office on the same site. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Houston-Galveston Area Council put AI consulting services on its HGACBuy purchasing catalog under contract AI05-26. Can the public take part?
The contract, its awarded vendors and the product listings are published on the HGACBuy site and can be viewed by anyone. Buying from it requires being an HGACBuy member organization. A member of the public participates through their own city, county or district rather than directly. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Judges back El Paso Electric's gas plant for Meta only if other customers don't pay. Can the public take part?
The commission will put the case on an open meeting agenda and set deadlines for the parties' exceptions to the proposal. Every filing is public under Docket 59076 on the commission's Interchange system, and residents have filed public comments there.
Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a conditional use permit for a $30 million ONMINE data center. Can the public take part?
The commission's action is a recommendation only. The zoning decision goes to the Killeen City Council in open session, where a member of the public can speak at the public hearing on the rezoning request.
Laredo City Council declined a data center moratorium, and its direction to write permanent rules has reached three agendas with no recorded action. Can the public take part?
The council item is still live and has returned to a regular City Council agenda three times. Agendas, item records and matter histories are published in the city's Legistar system, and a member of the public may speak at the regular meeting where it is taken up.
League City City Council ordered a November 3rd special election on whether police may keep using automated license plate reader cameras. Can the public take part?
League City City Council meets in Council Chambers at 200 West Walker Street. The August 25th, 2026 meeting was held and its record names no automated license plate reader item, and the city's calendar carries no council meeting after it yet. The proposition goes to registered voters at the November 3rd, 2026 election, and the wording the city published says the result does not bind the council.
Leander stops paying for its plate reader contract and says the police department is no longer using the cameras or the data. Can the public take part?
The city published the decision on its own news page. Leander City Council meetings are posted and open, and the direction was given at a regular meeting. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Lubbock County Commissioners Court passes a non binding disclosure resolution on large scale industrial development, four to one. Can the public take part?
The Commissioners Court took the item up at a public meeting where residents gathered to hear it, and the debate over the wording happened in open session. Members of the public attend the court in the Lubbock County courtroom.
Lubbock starts the procedure for a 90 day data center moratorium after the 18 month petition fails. Can the public take part?
The council meets in open session at Citizens Tower and posts its agendas at its agenda center. The moratorium needs two public hearings before it can be declared, and a resident can speak at each.
Memorial Hermann clinicians send Houston patients an AI drafted explanation of their own test results. Can the public take part?
A private health system's software rollout carries no comment window and no hearing. The announcement publishes a media contact and a media hotline. A patient of the system sees the drafted note in the message that carries their own result, and the clinician who sent it is the person to ask about it. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
NSF awarded Prairie View A and M a grant to let AI split up the grid optimization problem across processor cores. Can the public take part?
The award record is public and keyless at the National Science Foundation award service, where the abstract, the obligation, the program and the principal investigator are all published. The awardee institution is a public university and its research office is reachable. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
NSF awarded UT Austin a grant to replace hand written robot safety rules with a model trained on demonstrated safe behavior. Can the public take part?
The award record is public and keyless at the National Science Foundation award service, where the abstract, the obligation, the program and the principal investigator are all published. The awardee institution is a public university and its research office is reachable. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
NSF funds a Rice laboratory where a model designs the experiment and a robot runs it, bookable from anywhere. Can the public take part?
The award record is public and the university publishes its own account. A researcher who wants to use the platform applies to Rice once it is running rather than to the funding agency.
National Science Foundation awards Rice University a cooperative agreement for a self driving laboratory that designs its own semiconductor experiments. Can the public take part?
The award record is public in the National Science Foundation award database and carries the abstract, the amounts and the dates. No comment window attaches to a made award. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
National Science Foundation awards Texas A and M a national user facility where robots and artificial intelligence design and test new metal alloys. Can the public take part?
The award record is public in the National Science Foundation award database. The agency describes the platform as an open access national user facility, so access is by application to the facility rather than through a comment window. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
National Science Foundation backs a Texas A&M tool that screens whether an alloy can exist before anyone makes it. Can the public take part?
The college publishes its own account and states the tool is free and openly available. No public body is taking comment on it. A researcher who wants the code goes to the group that wrote it. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
National Science Foundation funds Rice to let AI propose numerical algorithms only where a proof checker certifies them. Can the public take part?
The award record is public at the National Science Foundation award page under award number 2616828. No comment window, hearing or application step is stated in the record.
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. Can the public take part?
The award records are public at the National Science Foundation award pages under award numbers 2619079 and 2619080. No comment window, hearing or application step is stated in either record.
National Science Foundation funds a five year human and robot co-adaptation center at UT Austin. Can the public take part?
No comment window attaches to a made award. The agency publishes the award record and its abstract and its funding figures through its own awards service. The university is the reachable party for questions about the center itself. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
National Science Foundation funds an open access robot run alloy laboratory at Texas A&M that outside researchers may book. Can the public take part?
The award record states the facility is an open access national user facility. Researchers from universities and national laboratories and industry visit it as hands on users. Industry engages through fee for service and collaborative and consortium modes. The award record itself is public at the National Science Foundation award page under award number 2534344. No application window or user call is stated in the record.
National Science Foundation names UT El Paso in the first round of CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service awards. Can the public take part?
Students apply through UTEP's Department of Computer Science. That department publishes eligibility rules, stipend amounts and the service obligation on its Scholarship for Service program page. The award itself was an agency decision with no public comment step. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
National Science Foundation puts UT Austin's supercomputing center in an operating role for the national AI research resource. Can the public take part?
The National Science Foundation publishes the announcement and the program pages for the research resource. There is no comment window and no hearing attached to the establishment of the operations center. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
PUCT Docket 59029, Oncor application for a second 765 kV line across ten west Texas counties. Can the public take part?
The commission issued its order on August 28th, 2026. Filings stay public through the Interchange under control number 59029, and a party that wants the commission to look again files a motion for rehearing there. The commission's open meetings each begin with a public comment period on any matter within its jurisdiction.
PUCT Docket 59315, Oncor application for a 765 kV transmission line across 22 counties. Can the public take part?
The commission took the docket up at its open meeting and issued its order on August 28th, 2026. The whole record stays public through the Interchange under control number 59315, where landowners intervened and filed protests in their own names. A party that wants the commission to look again files a motion for rehearing in the same docket.
PUCT Project 58000, rulemaking to update ERCOT transmission cost recovery, comment deadline reached. Can the public take part?
The comment window on this decision has closed. The deciding body is still named on the item page and is still reachable.
PUCT Project 58482, proposed new rule on Large Load Demand Management Service, comment window now shut. Can the public take part?
The dated comment window has passed. The commission is still reachable and the Interchange filer at https://www.puc.texas.gov/industry/filings/Default.aspx still takes a filing under control number 58482, and the index carries one filed after the deadline. What comes next is the commission's to schedule. The filing index publishes a party name and a file stamp and an item type and a description, and nothing about who a filer is. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
PUCT adopts the SB 6 large load interconnection rule, requires $50,000 per megawatt of security and drops the interconnection fee. Can the public take part?
The rule is adopted and the comment stage is over. The order, all of the comments filed against the proposal and the commission's response to each are public in Project 58481 on the commission's filing system.
PUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027. Can the public take part?
Open meetings are held in Commissioners Hearing Room 7-100 at commission headquarters in Austin and the feed marks each one open to the public. A feed entry gives the date, the room and whether it is public, and never the dockets. Each entry links the agenda, which is where the cases to be taken up are named. Subscribing to the feed is the simplest way for a member of the public to see a comment deadline before it passes rather than after.
PUCT opens the first five year review of the ERCOT system-wide offer caps, with comments due September 17th. Can the public take part?
The comment window on this decision has closed. The deciding body is still named on the item page and is still reachable.
PUCT told an Armstrong County AI data center to shed its whole load, then left those conditions in place. Can the public take part?
The whole docket is public and readable on the commission's Interchange under control number 59220, including the order, the ERCOT study filing and the motion for rehearing. The intervention deadline has passed, so a member of the public can't join this case as a party. The commission itself is reachable through Central Records in Austin and its open meetings are the room where a rehearing motion is taken up. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
PUCT wildfire plan blueprint lists cameras suggested, not required. Can the public take part?
The pro forma is final. Each utility files its own plan as an application at the commission. The rule sets the intervention deadline at 30 calendar days from the date notice of that application is complete. The pro forma, the comments filed on it and TDEM's wildfire risk area determination are public in Project 59053 on the commission's filing system. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD's JETI agreement for the Energy Forge One power plant is executed and posted. Can the public take part?
The agreement is executed, so the participation window has closed. The application, three supplements, the Comptroller recommendation packet and the signed agreement are all posted on the Comptroller's application details page for J0022. That is the paper trail a resident would read. Future JETI applications go to a school board public hearing under Government Code Chapter 403 Subchapter T. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Pflugerville orders a November election on charter amendments, one of them a section on the city's use of artificial intelligence. Can the public take part?
The charter amendments go to Pflugerville voters on November 3rd, 2026, with polls open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The Charter Review Commission's report carries the full text of the proposed Section 2.03, so a voter can read the words that would enter the charter. The ordinance submits the measures as listed in its own exhibit, which is where the proposition captions live. This is an election process. Its date is not a public comment deadline.
Reeves County Emergency Services District No. 2 takes up a Chapter 312 abatement for a gas plant built to run data centers. Can the public take part?
The notice states that all interested persons may appear and present testimony and evidence on the abatement application at the district's administrative office, 2269 Ocotillo Drive, Pecos, Texas 79772. ESD No. 2 meets at 5.30 in the afternoon on the third Tuesday of the month at that address. The district lists a phone number and an email on its meetings page.
Richardson ISD drafts a legislative ask that puts classroom AI guidance first. Can the public take part?
Texas school board meetings are open and the district publishes its agendas, its board meeting videos and a written recap of each meeting on its own site. The final vote is expected at a regular board meeting in October.
San Angelo City Council caps data center cooling water by ordinance. Can the public take part?
The ordinance is adopted and in force. The City of San Angelo publishes the three adopted data center ordinances and the Northeast Sector Master Plan work on its Data Center Information page. City Council meets in open session where residents may speak. Exceedance reports go to the City Council within five business days, so the record of any overuse arrives on a public agenda.
San Angelo sets reporting rules for data center coolant discharged into the city sewer. Can the public take part?
The ordinance is in force. Discharge records are held by the Director of Water Utilities and are producible on request. That makes them reachable through a Texas Public Information Act request to the City of San Angelo. The city publishes the adopted text on its data center page.
San Angelo writes data centers into its zoning code and makes them a conditional use only. Can the public take part?
Because data centers are a Conditional Use, every future application goes to a noticed hearing under Section 208. Neighbors get another bite each time rather than one vote on the whole category. The adopted ordinance and the city's data center page carry the standards a resident would measure a site plan against.
San Marcos City Council voted 4 to 3 to define data centers in its land development code and make them ineligible citywide. Can the public take part?
The decision is made. The adopted Land Development Code, the adopted redlines and the code update summary guide are posted on the city's Code Updates page. Further amendments run through the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council on the published 2026 meeting calendar. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Science foundation funds a Texas A&M engineering station to build AI digital twins of small water systems. Can the public take part?
The foundation publishes the award record with its abstract, amount and dates. There is no comment window and no public proceeding attached to an award. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Senate Economic Development holds its reset hearing on AI and the Texas workforce on September 22nd. Can the public take part?
The September 3rd hearing was canceled and the reset hearing was held on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026 in hearing room E1.016 at the Capitol in Austin. What comes next is the committee's interim report on the charge. The committee's page names Angela Paxton as chair and gives the committee's telephone number and its office in the Sam Houston Building.
Senate Transportation held its August 25th hearing on how driverless vehicles are being deployed under SB 2807. Can the public take part?
The hearing was held at 9:00 AM on August 25th, 2026 in hearing room E1.016 at the Capitol in Austin, and the committee's own page carries the recording. The door to testify has closed. The committee has published no recommendations on the charge.
Senate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs has held both sittings on data center cooling water and published no recommendation. Can the public take part?
Both sittings have been held and no further hearing is set, so there is no meeting to attend. The committee's own page carries its interim charges and its recordings. A member of the public who wants to be heard on the cooling water charge should write to the committee clerk before the committee reports. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
SpaceX will build the Terafab semiconductor plant in Grimes County on a state grant and two school district agreements. Can the public take part?
The state grant and the school district agreements are already made. A resident who wants to follow what happens next goes to the Grimes County Commissioners Court. The Iola and Anderson-Shiro school boards hold the local agreements. All three meet in public. The Texas Enterprise Fund is administered by the Governor's economic development office. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
State technology agency publishes how it is implementing the four AI laws of the 89th Legislature. Can the public take part?
The agency publishes the account and the training video on its own site. The training obligation reaches employees through their own employer rather than through a docket, so there is no hearing and no comment window. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Statute requires state agencies and local governments to post standardized notice of AI systems. Can the public take part?
The notice is meant to appear wherever the system is used. A resident who meets a government AI system should be able to see one. Where no notice appears, the question goes to the agency or local government running the system. Questions about the form itself go to DIR, which was required to develop it. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
TCEQ canceled the Carson County public meeting on Fermi Equipment Holdco's new air permits and says it will be rescheduled. Can the public take part?
Written comments go to the TCEQ Office of the Chief Clerk at P.O. Box 13087 in Austin. Use mail code MC-105 and postal code 78711-3087. Comments may also be filed electronically before the public comment period closes. TCEQ says the canceled meeting will be rescheduled, so the room reopens on a date the agency has not yet published.
TCEQ canceled the San Antonio notice and comment hearing on Vantage Data Centers TX11's air permit O4791. Can the public take part?
Written comments may be mailed to the TCEQ Office of the Chief Clerk at P.O. Box 13087 in Austin. Use mail code MC-105 and postal code 78711-3087. They may also be submitted electronically before the public comment period closes. TCEQ's Public Education Program takes questions at 800-687-4040.
TCEQ has four data center air permit applications posted with published public notices, including Crusoe's two Texas campuses. Can the public take part?
Each listed application links a plain language summary and the published notices. Comments go to the TCEQ Office of the Chief Clerk at P.O. Box 13087 in Austin. Use mail code MC-105 and postal code 78711-3087. Comments may also be filed through the eComment system. A person who may be affected by emissions can request a contested case hearing. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
TCEQ issues preliminary decision and opens comment on Crusoe's gas power plant at the Abilene data center campus. Can the public take part?
Submit written comments or request a public meeting or contested case hearing electronically at www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/comment. They may also be mailed to the Office of the Chief Clerk at P.O. Box 13087 in Austin. Use mail code MC 105 and postal code 78711-3087. Reference permit 182126. The full application and draft permit can be read at the Abilene Public Library on Cedar Street. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
TRAIGA in force as Business and Commerce Code Chapter 552, enforceable only by the Attorney General. Can the public take part?
Individuals can't sue under this chapter. The route is a complaint to the Attorney General. The same chapter requires that office to create and maintain an online mechanism on its website through which a consumer may submit a complaint. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
TRAIGA preempts city and county regulation of artificial intelligence. Can the public take part?
The preemption is enacted law and takes no comment. Changing it takes the Legislature or a court. The Legislature next convenes in regular session in 2027. A resident whose city wants to act on AI can raise it with their legislator.
Tarrant Regional Water District says it has signed no water supply contract for a data center and that the Cedar Creek request was withdrawn. Can the public take part?
TRWD raw water supply contracts are decided at monthly open board meetings. Those meetings are broadcast, recorded and archived on the district website, so a resident can watch the vote or attend and speak.
Temple Planning and Zoning Commission takes up a Unified Development Code amendment that would require a Conditional Use Permit for every future data center. Can the public take part?
Attend the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting on August 17th, 2026. Since December 11th, 2025 the City of Temple no longer offers a virtual participation option for board and commission meetings. Attendance is in person at City Hall on North Main Street. Agendas and supporting documents are posted on the city's data center hub and its public meetings page, and the City Secretary's office is reachable at 254-298-5700.
Texas A&M tells its campus to run AI through a university portal rather than a public chatbot. Can the public take part?
The university publishes the guidance on its technology services news page. There is no comment window, and the platform itself is behind a university login. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Texas Children's and UT Southwestern radiologists publish that imaging AI has largely skipped children. Can the public take part?
The review is published in the American Journal of Roentgenology. The abstract and the author affiliations are readable without a subscription through the National Library of Medicine. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Texas Government Code Chapter 2054 carries three conflicting Subchapter S's on AI, with duplicated section numbers. Can the public take part?
A codification conflict is resolved either by the Legislature in a future non substantive revision bill or by a court. There is no comment window. A reader who cares can raise it with their own legislator or with the Texas Legislative Council, which prepares the revision bills. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Texas State University moves an AI pavement inspection method toward statewide highway use. Can the public take part?
The university publishes the research announcement. No comment window or hearing is attached to it, and the deployment decision would rest with the state transportation department rather than with the university. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
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. Can the public take part?
TWDB board meetings are held at 1700 Congress Avenue in the Stephen F. Austin Building, Room 170, Austin, and by Teams. Anyone wanting to address the board completes a visitor registration card. Remote participants email the form to Customer_Service@twdb.texas.gov by noon the day before. Agenda item 26 is a general public comment period on any matter within the board's jurisdiction.
Texas requires AI training for state and local government employees, and this is the first annual cycle. Can the public take part?
The bill's history, caption, authors and effective date are published by the Legislature. A city or county employee who needs to know which training satisfies the requirement should ask the Department of Information Resources. That agency also holds the date by which an entity certifies. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Texas requires a state authorization to run driverless vehicles commercially, with no fee, no expiry and no crash history asked. Can the public take part?
A concern about an automated vehicle that could cause serious bodily injury or death can be sent to the department's Enforcement Division. It goes through the motor carrier credentialing site, where law enforcement can also verify whether a vehicle or operator holds an authorization. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
The Army funds a Rice research center on antenna arrays that carries AI as one of six disciplines. Can the public take part?
The university publishes its own account of the award. No public participation step is named.
The Hays County Clerk asks the commissioners court to buy AI that writes the county's official minutes. Can the public take part?
The agenda is published in full on the county's own agenda portal and the meeting has been held. The County Clerk's Office is the requesting office and the court is the body that decides. Both keep public contact details on the county site, and the court posts its agendas in advance of every meeting. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
The House committee on government efficiency is charged with studying whether the state should use artificial intelligence to find fraud in its own spending. Can the public take part?
House committee meetings are open to the public and the House publishes its own committee schedules and its interim reports. The Speaker's charge document is published in full, so a reader can see what the committee was told to examine before it reports on it.
The National Science Foundation funds a Texas A&M project to build AI digital twins of small and mid-sized water systems. Can the public take part?
A federal research award carries no comment window. The award record is public and searchable by its own number, and it names the awardee institution and the principal investigator. The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station is a state agency and a member of the Texas A&M University System, whose governing board meets in public. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
The National Science Foundation funds a UT Austin center to put assistive robots into occupied homes, workplaces and care facilities. Can the public take part?
A federal research award carries no comment window. The award record is public and searchable by its own number, and it names the awardee institution and the principal investigator. The university that holds it is a public institution of this state, and its governing board meets in public. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
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. Can the public take part?
A federal research award carries no comment window. The award record is public and searchable by its own number, and it names the awardee institution and the principal investigator. Texas Southern University is a public institution of this state and its governing board meets in public. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
The National Science Foundation puts the national AI research resource into standing operations, co-run from Austin. Can the public take part?
The foundation publishes the announcement and names the two centers that run the resource. A researcher reaches the resource through the national portal the operations center runs rather than through a comment window or a hearing. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
The Supreme Court of Texas will hear argument on October 6th in a mandamus proceeding the court reporters' association has entered. Can the public take part?
The court publishes the full docket, the briefs and the argument date on its own case page, and it posts video of its oral arguments. Anyone can read what each side filed before the argument is heard.
The Texas A&M System's shared AI supercomputer enters the world list at number 66. Can the public take part?
The project publishes its own documentation and its own beta status. A researcher at a System institution can read the access rule rather than infer it. The project invites anyone following it to register interest for notification when general availability opens, and its support address is published on the documentation site. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
The University of North Texas takes a twenty million dollar gift and names a college of artificial intelligence after the donors. Can the public take part?
A university gift announcement carries no comment window. The University of North Texas System is governed by a board of regents that meets in public and posts its agendas, and a naming of this kind reaches that board. The announcement itself publishes the university's communications office as the contact. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
The University of Texas at Austin requires every course syllabus to state its AI policy. Can the public take part?
The requirement and the exact statement a syllabus must carry are published on the provost's own site. A student or an instructor can read the rule itself rather than a summary of it. A student's own course syllabus is where the designation for that class appears.
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. Can the public take part?
The rulemaking room is shut. The text the board acted on is published as the item's own attachment and the rule takes effect 20 days after it is filed with the Texas Register. A reader who wants to act on what a course teaches takes it to a school district, which chooses the instructional materials the standards are taught from.
The grid operator sends every conditionally classified large load a questionnaire, with a notarized attestation and ten business days to answer. Can the public take part?
The user guide is published on the grid operator's own document site and anyone can read it. The questionnaire itself runs inside a registered portal. Only the three parties on a project can see or answer it, and a member of the public has no route in. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
The grid operator sets an October 6th workshop on how it would curtail a large load under Senate Bill 6. Can the public take part?
The market notice names the workshop, its date and its intended audience. The grid operator publishes its market notices to anyone, and the revision requests the workshop previews go through its own stakeholder process before they are filed.
The grid operator tells providers which large loads it has provisionally placed in Batch Zero, and every placement carries a condition. Can the public take part?
The market notice is published on the grid operator's public notices page. An entity that disagrees with a provisional classification files through the dispute route the notice names rather than in a public docket. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Tom Green County Commissioners Court declines a Precinct 4 moratorium on data centers and large energy projects. Can the public take part?
Tom Green County Commissioners Court meets in open session at the county courthouse in San Angelo and posts agendas under the Texas Open Meetings Act. The moratorium item reached the agenda because it was placed there. The county's own website returned a server error when fetched, so the URL given here is the report of the meeting rather than the county's agenda page.
Two Texas House committees take up data centers and AI in health care on August 19th and August 20th. Can the public take part?
Both notices are posted by the Legislature and give the room and the start time. The State Affairs hearing on August 19th took invited and public testimony, limited to two minutes a witness, with registration closing at 10:00 am that day. The Public Health hearing on August 20th takes invited testimony only, so the way in is the written one. Texas residents may submit comments electronically on the artificial intelligence in health care charge until that hearing is adjourned.
UT Arlington builds a federally funded AI tutor that withholds the answer and helps build Fort Worth police training on the same method. Can the public take part?
The work is a funded university research project rather than a proceeding, so no comment window or hearing attaches to it. The university names both faculty leads and publishes a press contact on the release itself. The Fort Worth Police Department is a city department and the council that funds it meets in public. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
UT Arlington replaces its business analytics degrees with artificial intelligence degrees. Can the public take part?
The announcement is published on the university's own newsroom. A prospective student reaches the college through the degree pages the announcement links to. No comment window attaches to a curriculum change a university makes for itself. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
UT Austin funds four fusion seed grants and says in its own release that the AI method offers limited guarantees. Can the public take part?
The university publishes its own account of the four awards and names the institutes that funded them. No public body is taking comment. A researcher reaches the program through the institutes named in the release. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
UT Austin puts a computer science and AI course in the core every undergraduate takes. Can the public take part?
The university published the course list and the phasing. No public comment step is named and the announcement does not state that the Board of Regents formally approved the core.
UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the chip rather than in the cloud. Can the public take part?
The university publishes the account of the system, names the researchers and names the federal program that funded it. There is no comment window and no meeting. A reader who wants the underlying method contacts the laboratory the announcement names. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the device instead of a server. Can the public take part?
The university's own account is public and names the lead researcher and the laboratory. No comment window or public proceeding attaches to a research prototype. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
UT Southwestern says AI now does most of the grading on its medical students' clinical exam notes. Can the public take part?
The medical school publishes its own account of the process. No public participation step exists and no date is given for the decision.
UT System Board of Regents approved a School of Computing at UT Austin uniting computer science, information, statistics and data sciences. Can the public take part?
UT System Board of Regents meetings are public and are webcast. The system posts the full agenda book and per-item documents for every meeting at utsystem.edu. The most recent regular meeting was held in Austin on August 12th and August 13th, 2026.
UT System Board of Regents approves $25 million to finish San Pedro II for UTSA's College of AI, Cyber and Computing. Can the public take part?
UT System Board of Regents meetings are open and are streamed. They are posted as notices of open meeting with agenda books. Meeting materials and archives are published on the UT System website.
UT System Regents put the first billion dollars of the UT Dell Medical Center into the capital program. Can the public take part?
The board met on August 12th and 13th in Austin and the agenda book carrying the recommendation is published in full. UT System publishes no minutes and no record of action for that meeting. The outcome recorded here rests on a dated report of it. No further public step on this phase is named in the item.
UTMB moved its Epic health record into Microsoft's cloud and named advanced technologies as the reason. Can the public take part?
The institution published its own account of the migration and names the chief information officer who describes it. UTMB is a public institution of the University of Texas System and its communications office is reachable. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
University of North Texas opens an undergraduate artificial intelligence degree. Can the public take part?
The university publishes the degree plan and the department contact on its program page. Admission questions go to the department rather than through any public proceeding. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Utilities Code limits how the PUCT may direct ERCOT, and bars verbal directives. Can the public take part?
A directive to ERCOT must run through a contested case, a rulemaking or a majority vote taken in a meeting. Each of those routes carries its own way in for the public. PUCT open meetings are listed on the agency calendar feed and are open to the public in Commissioners Hearing Room 7-100.
Utility commission approves a 765 kilovolt line from Somervell County to Howard County. Can the public take part?
The docket is decided. The commission's filing system carries the record under control number 59315, and the company publishes a project page describing the route and the decision.
Wichita Falls Planning and Zoning Commission approves a conditional use permit for a DataNovaX data center on Airport Drive. Can the public take part?
The Planning and Zoning Commission is a public body of the City of Wichita Falls. Its agendas and minutes are posted through the city's Agenda Center, where a resident can find the meeting date, the item and how to speak. A conditional use permit item is heard in open session.
Williamson County Commissioners Court granted Compal USA Technology a Chapter 312 abatement for a Georgetown server service center. Can the public take part?
The agreement is approved and no comment period remains open. Williamson County publishes the action, the commissioners' statements and county contacts on its public affairs news page at wilcotx.gov. Performance under a Chapter 312 agreement is verified by the county before any abatement is granted. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.
Young County Commissioners Court receives the Project Saltworks tax abatement application and ratifies a developer funded escrow for consultants. Can the public take part?
The Commissioners Court meets in open session at the Young County Courthouse in Graham and takes public comment before acting. Residents used that period at the August 10th meeting to press commissioners on roads, water, emergency services and environmental studies. The abatement application is now a public document held by the county clerk.