When each one started
The earliest date on every entry's record. Answered here for 164 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. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 8th, 2026.
A Texas Senate committee set a hearing on how much water data center cooling uses and whether local water providers are told. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 1st, 2026.
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. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 8th, 2026.
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. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is December 1st, 2024.
A machine scores the longer written answers on English STAAR first. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 4th, 2026.
A statewide poll finds most Texas voters oppose a data center in their own community for a second survey running. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 13th, 2026.
A three campus Texas trial tests whether a phone microphone held to the abdomen can count fetal movement by machine. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 6th, 2026.
Amarillo City Council authorizes a twenty year water supply agreement selling city water to Fermi America's Project Matador. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is October 28th, 2025.
Amazon and Wiwynn say they will expand the El Paso County plant that builds the racks going into AI data centers. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 10th, 2026.
Amazon selects Austin for a factory building the robotics systems used in its warehouses, and the mayor says no incentives were requested. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 19th, 2026.
An MD Anderson and UT Medical Branch MRI model scored lower on patients it was not built on. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 9th, 2026.
Angelina County Commissioners Court adopts Resolution 010-26 asking the Legislature for authority over data centers. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 14th, 2026.
Archer County Commissioners Court unanimously denies a tax abatement for a Dynamo Ventures data center. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is June 22nd, 2026.
Asked for AI camera fire detections, Xcel counted cameras. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 10th, 2025.
Austin City Council adopted Ordinance 20260423-029 creating City Code Chapter 2-19 on surveillance technology. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is February 5th, 2026.
Austin City Council takes up a resolution to amend the land code for data centers. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 5th, 2026.
Austin City Council takes up a resolution to write data centers into a land development code that has no definition of one. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 21st, 2026.
Austin bars its city manager from buying any park camera or drone that depends on artificial intelligence. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 12th, 2026.
Blanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation District signed a resolution asking the Legislature to clarify district authority over data centers. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is April 16th, 2026.
Brazoria County Commissioners Court adopted a resolution stating conditions it wants on data center development. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is May 29th, 2026.
Brazoria County Commissioners Court voted 5 to 0 to deny the reinvestment zone that four data center and power plant abatement applications depended on. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is February 10th, 2026.
Brazos County Commissioners Court assigns the RELLIS data center tax abatement to ThisWay Global after the original developer's bankruptcy. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is April 29th, 2025.
Brownsville takes up a temporary moratorium on data centers after staff tells the commission its code has no rules for them. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 1st, 2026.
Carson County Commissioners Court approves a phased tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is October 28th, 2025.
Case managers beat Houston Methodist's discharge AI on the last day. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 3rd, 2026.
City of Taylor's notice of an amended Compal tax abatement is no longer posted, and no outcome is published. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 13th, 2026.
College Station City Council votes 4 to 2 to keep its Flock plate reader cameras on state and city roads. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 24th, 2026.
Conroe City Council fell short of the votes needed to put its Flock camera contract on the November ballot. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 23rd, 2026.
Corpus Christi City Council directed staff to write a zoning amendment prohibiting data centers in every zoning district and to prepare a moratorium process. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 15th, 2026.
DIR must run an AI regulatory sandbox letting state agencies test systems outside normal rules. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 1st, 2025.
Dallas Public Safety Committee sets a briefing on the police Flock plate reader program. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 13th, 2026.
Dallas issues its first code citations from the AI cameras on its brush trucks. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is December 9th, 2025.
Denton City Council takes up a data center moratorium resolution and a schedule of the public hearings it would require. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 18th, 2026.
ERCOT starts sending the Batch Zero questionnaires, and a data center that does not answer comes off the list. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 9th, 2026.
ERCOT tells its board that AI training loads can fatigue grid generators and drafts a limit on how fast their power draw may swing. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 26th, 2026.
El Paso City Council adopted a letter asking Governor Abbott to clarify his data center directives. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 11th, 2026.
El Paso City Council adopts a Data Center Policy Framework requiring a Special Permit for hyperscale projects. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is June 22nd, 2026.
El Paso City Council amends its state legislative agenda to seek protection for residential ratepayers from data center utility costs. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is June 16th, 2026.
El Paso City Council approves two plate reader items as revised, with the amendment text unpublished. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 15th, 2026.
El Paso passes two plate reader items as revised, filed to take city-sited readers down and bar new contracts. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 15th, 2026.
Energy Department funds a synthetic underground test pit at a Navasota drilling site to prove out mining automation. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 9th, 2026.
Energy Department research arm funds a Houston led team using AI to search for new magnet materials. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 1st, 2026.
FAA takes comment until October 11th on letting Zipline fly drone deliveries around the clock over five Texas metros. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 11th, 2026.
Federal comment window has closed on NRC reactor licensing and siting modernization. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 16th, 2026.
Federal comment window has closed on adding AI questions to the American Time Use Survey. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 10th, 2026.
Federal commodities regulator opens comment on trading derivatives whose underlying commodity is compute. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 21st, 2026.
Federal energy department opens comment on securing the grid and names AI as why demand grew, closing October 9th. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 9th, 2026.
Federal investigators opened a defect evaluation into a driverless system after crashes in Dallas and Austin. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is May 6th, 2026.
Federal regulators open an audit of how Tesla certified the Cybercab, on the day commercial deployment began in Austin. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 3rd, 2026.
Federal survey office asks whether the household internet survey should start measuring AI use, closing November 9th. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 9th, 2026.
Fort Worth City Council unanimously began a 90 day data center moratorium and adopted grid filing requirements over one dissent. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 11th, 2026.
Four Texas campuses took roles in the Energy Department's AI for science program. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 22nd, 2026.
Frontera's queues close permanently on October 1st, 2026. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 3rd, 2026.
Governor Abbott directs the utility commission and ERCOT to audit every data center in the interconnection queue before any advances. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 3rd, 2026.
Governor directs the environmental agency to issue no data center permits until the grid audit is done. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 21st, 2026.
Governor directs the water board to enforce the state water use survey against data centers that did not return it. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 14th, 2026.
Governor orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock plate reader cameras. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 28th, 2026.
Grid operator asks the water board's questions and gives data centers until October 12th. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 14th, 2026.
Grid operator weighs a year's grace for data center cooling equipment on ride-through rules. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 21st, 2026.
Guadalupe County Commissioners Court unanimously approves ending the county's Flock Safety license plate reader contract. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 4th, 2026.
Harlingen Waterworks System board approves an effluent water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a proposed data center. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 22nd, 2025.
Harris County Commissioners Court renewed its Flock Group license plate reader and sound detection contract, then amended it to run county-wide. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is May 18th, 2026.
Hays County Commissioners Court adopted a 180-day emergency water review period for high water use developments and created a review board. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is June 23rd, 2026.
Hays County posts the sheriff's promise not to switch on AI report writing without coming back to the court. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 1st, 2026.
Hays County takes up a policy on how it governs AI in surveillance. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 8th, 2026.
Homeland Security tested facial biometric capture on pedestrians walking out of the country at the Progreso International Bridge. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is October 1st, 2025.
House Public Health held an interim hearing on artificial intelligence use in health care. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 20th, 2026.
House State Affairs held an interim hearing on data center development and the proposed 765 kV transmission lines. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 19th, 2026.
Houston ISD carried an artificial intelligence board policy to a second reading. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is March 20th, 2026.
Houston Methodist put an imaging AI in front of its radiologists and says out loud that it is imperfect. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is June 29th, 2026.
Houston academic physician group moves from two ambient AI pilots toward one unified documentation platform. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 9th, 2026.
Houston-Galveston Area Council put AI consulting services on its HGACBuy purchasing catalog under contract AI05-26. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is May 1st, 2026.
Judges back El Paso Electric's gas plant for Meta only if other customers don't pay. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is December 8th, 2025.
Justice Department takes comment on a judgment barring a Frisco apartment manager from rent software fed by rivals' data. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 4th, 2026.
Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a conditional use permit for a $30 million ONMINE data center. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is April 27th, 2026.
Laredo City Council declined a data center moratorium, and its direction to write permanent rules has reached three agendas with no recorded action. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 27th, 2026.
League City City Council ordered a November 3rd special election on whether police may keep using automated license plate reader cameras. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 5th, 2026.
Leander stops paying for its plate reader contract and says the police department is no longer using the cameras or the data. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 3rd, 2026.
Lubbock County Commissioners Court passes a non binding disclosure resolution on large scale industrial development, four to one. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 10th, 2026.
Lubbock starts the procedure for a 90 day data center moratorium after the 18 month petition fails. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 8th, 2026.
Memorial Hermann clinicians send Houston patients an AI drafted explanation of their own test results. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 8th, 2026.
NSF awarded Prairie View A and M a grant to let AI split up the grid optimization problem across processor cores. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 11th, 2026.
NSF awarded UT Austin a grant to replace hand written robot safety rules with a model trained on demonstrated safe behavior. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 13th, 2026.
NSF funds a Rice laboratory where a model designs the experiment and a robot runs it, bookable from anywhere. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 1st, 2026.
National Science Foundation awards Rice University a cooperative agreement for a self driving laboratory that designs its own semiconductor experiments. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 21st, 2026.
National Science Foundation awards Texas A and M a national user facility where robots and artificial intelligence design and test new metal alloys. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 31st, 2026.
National Science Foundation backs a Texas A&M tool that screens whether an alloy can exist before anyone makes it. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 4th, 2026.
National Science Foundation funds Rice to let AI propose numerical algorithms only where a proof checker certifies them. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 17th, 2026.
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. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 14th, 2026.
National Science Foundation funds a five year human and robot co-adaptation center at UT Austin. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 25th, 2026.
National Science Foundation funds an open access robot run alloy laboratory at Texas A&M that outside researchers may book. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 31st, 2026.
National Science Foundation names UT El Paso in the first round of CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service awards. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 28th, 2026.
National Science Foundation puts UT Austin's supercomputing center in an operating role for the national AI research resource. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 1st, 2026.
PUCT Docket 59029, Oncor application for a second 765 kV line across ten west Texas counties. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 21st, 2026.
PUCT Docket 59315, Oncor application for a 765 kV transmission line across 22 counties. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is February 2nd, 2026.
PUCT Project 58000, rulemaking to update ERCOT transmission cost recovery, comment deadline reached. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is April 23rd, 2025.
PUCT Project 58482, proposed new rule on Large Load Demand Management Service, comment window now shut. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 24th, 2026.
PUCT adopts the SB 6 large load interconnection rule, requires $50,000 per megawatt of security and drops the interconnection fee. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 18th, 2026.
PUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 20th, 2026.
PUCT opens the first five year review of the ERCOT system-wide offer caps, with comments due September 17th. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is March 23rd, 2026.
PUCT told an Armstrong County AI data center to shed its whole load, then left those conditions in place. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is January 9th, 2026.
PUCT wildfire plan blueprint lists cameras suggested, not required. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is December 4th, 2025.
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD's JETI agreement for the Energy Forge One power plant is executed and posted. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is November 10th, 2025.
Pflugerville orders a November election on charter amendments, one of them a section on the city's use of artificial intelligence. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 11th, 2026.
Reeves County Emergency Services District No. 2 takes up a Chapter 312 abatement for a gas plant built to run data centers. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is November 24th, 2025.
Richardson ISD drafts a legislative ask that puts classroom AI guidance first. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 18th, 2026.
San Angelo City Council caps data center cooling water by ordinance. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is May 19th, 2026.
San Angelo sets reporting rules for data center coolant discharged into the city sewer. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is May 19th, 2026.
San Angelo writes data centers into its zoning code and makes them a conditional use only. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is April 20th, 2026.
San Marcos City Council voted 4 to 3 to define data centers in its land development code and make them ineligible citywide. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is June 16th, 2026.
Science foundation funds a Texas A&M engineering station to build AI digital twins of small water systems. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 9th, 2026.
Senate Economic Development holds its reset hearing on AI and the Texas workforce on September 22nd. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 3rd, 2026.
Senate Transportation held its August 25th hearing on how driverless vehicles are being deployed under SB 2807. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 25th, 2026.
Senate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs has held both sittings on data center cooling water and published no recommendation. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 1st, 2026.
SpaceX will build the Terafab semiconductor plant in Grimes County on a state grant and two school district agreements. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 6th, 2026.
State technology agency publishes how it is implementing the four AI laws of the 89th Legislature. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 14th, 2026.
Statute requires state agencies and local governments to post standardized notice of AI systems. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 1st, 2025.
TCEQ canceled the Carson County public meeting on Fermi Equipment Holdco's new air permits and says it will be rescheduled. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 12th, 2026.
TCEQ canceled the San Antonio notice and comment hearing on Vantage Data Centers TX11's air permit O4791. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 11th, 2026.
TCEQ has four data center air permit applications posted with published public notices, including Crusoe's two Texas campuses. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 14th, 2026.
TCEQ issues preliminary decision and opens comment on Crusoe's gas power plant at the Abilene data center campus. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is November 7th, 2025.
TRAIGA in force as Business and Commerce Code Chapter 552, enforceable only by the Attorney General. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is June 22nd, 2025.
TRAIGA preempts city and county regulation of artificial intelligence. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is January 1st, 2026.
Tarrant Regional Water District says it has signed no water supply contract for a data center and that the Cedar Creek request was withdrawn. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is June 23rd, 2026.
Temple Planning and Zoning Commission takes up a Unified Development Code amendment that would require a Conditional Use Permit for every future data center. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 17th, 2026.
Texas A&M tells its campus to run AI through a university portal rather than a public chatbot. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 31st, 2026.
Texas Children's and UT Southwestern radiologists publish that imaging AI has largely skipped children. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 9th, 2026.
Texas Government Code Chapter 2054 carries three conflicting Subchapter S's on AI, with duplicated section numbers. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 1st, 2025.
Texas State University moves an AI pavement inspection method toward statewide highway use. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 24th, 2026.
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. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is July 22nd, 2026.
Texas requires AI training for state and local government employees, and this is the first annual cycle. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 1st, 2025.
Texas requires a state authorization to run driverless vehicles commercially, with no fee, no expiry and no crash history asked. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is February 27th, 2026.
The Army funds a Rice research center on antenna arrays that carries AI as one of six disciplines. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 4th, 2026.
The Hays County Clerk asks the commissioners court to buy AI that writes the county's official minutes. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 15th, 2026.
The House committee on government efficiency is charged with studying whether the state should use artificial intelligence to find fraud in its own spending. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 19th, 2026.
The National Science Foundation funds a Texas A&M project to build AI digital twins of small and mid-sized water systems. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 9th, 2026.
The National Science Foundation funds a UT Austin center to put assistive robots into occupied homes, workplaces and care facilities. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 25th, 2026.
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. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 17th, 2026.
The National Science Foundation puts the national AI research resource into standing operations, co-run from Austin. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 1st, 2026.
The Supreme Court of Texas will hear argument on October 6th in a mandamus proceeding the court reporters' association has entered. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is May 29th, 2025.
The Texas A&M System's shared AI supercomputer enters the world list at number 66. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is January 1st, 2025.
The University of North Texas takes a twenty million dollar gift and names a college of artificial intelligence after the donors. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 8th, 2026.
The University of Texas at Austin requires every course syllabus to state its AI policy. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 24th, 2026.
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. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 4th, 2026.
The grid operator sends every conditionally classified large load a questionnaire, with a notarized attestation and ten business days to answer. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 3rd, 2026.
The grid operator sets an October 6th workshop on how it would curtail a large load under Senate Bill 6. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 2nd, 2026.
The grid operator tells providers which large loads it has provisionally placed in Batch Zero, and every placement carries a condition. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 3rd, 2026.
Tom Green County Commissioners Court declines a Precinct 4 moratorium on data centers and large energy projects. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is June 2nd, 2026.
Two Texas House committees take up data centers and AI in health care on August 19th and August 20th. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 19th, 2026.
UT Arlington builds a federally funded AI tutor that withholds the answer and helps build Fort Worth police training on the same method. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 10th, 2026.
UT Arlington replaces its business analytics degrees with artificial intelligence degrees. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 14th, 2026.
UT Austin funds four fusion seed grants and says in its own release that the AI method offers limited guarantees. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 31st, 2026.
UT Austin puts a computer science and AI course in the core every undergraduate takes. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 13th, 2026.
UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the chip rather than in the cloud. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 8th, 2026.
UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the device instead of a server. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is September 8th, 2026.
UT System Board of Regents approved a School of Computing at UT Austin uniting computer science, information, statistics and data sciences. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is February 19th, 2026.
UT System Board of Regents approves $25 million to finish San Pedro II for UTSA's College of AI, Cyber and Computing. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is May 20th, 2026.
UT System Regents put the first billion dollars of the UT Dell Medical Center into the capital program. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 12th, 2026.
UTMB moved its Epic health record into Microsoft's cloud and named advanced technologies as the reason. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 13th, 2026.
Utilities Code limits how the PUCT may direct ERCOT, and bars verbal directives. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is June 8th, 2021.
Utility commission approves a 765 kilovolt line from Somervell County to Howard County. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is February 19th, 2026.
Wichita Falls Planning and Zoning Commission approves a conditional use permit for a DataNovaX data center on Airport Drive. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 13th, 2026.
Williamson County Commissioners Court granted Compal USA Technology a Chapter 312 abatement for a Georgetown server service center. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is December 9th, 2025.
Young County Commissioners Court receives the Project Saltworks tax abatement application and ratifies a developer funded escrow for consultants. When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is August 10th, 2026.