Who decides
The body holding the pen on each decision. Answered here for 219 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. Who decides it?
Battalion Oil Corporation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
A Sugar Land maker of AI data center optics says its United States expansion is waiting on electrical power. Who decides it?
Applied Optoelectronics decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
A Texas Senate committee set a hearing on how much water data center cooling uses and whether local water providers are told. Who decides it?
Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
A UT Austin dance and engineering team wins an award to build an AI model that learns from recorded human movement. Who decides it?
The University of Texas at Austin decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
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. Who decides it?
Galaxy Digital Inc. decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
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. Who decides it?
The University of Texas System Board of Regents decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
A machine scores the longer written answers on English STAAR first. Who decides it?
Texas Education Agency decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
A statewide poll finds most Texas voters oppose a data center in their own community for a second survey running. Who decides it?
Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
A three campus Texas trial tests whether a phone microphone held to the abdomen can count fetal movement by machine. Who decides it?
University of Texas at Austin decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Amarillo City Council authorizes a twenty year water supply agreement selling city water to Fermi America's Project Matador. Who decides it?
Amarillo City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Amazon and Wiwynn say they will expand the El Paso County plant that builds the racks going into AI data centers. Who decides it?
Amazon.com, Inc. and Wiwynn Corporation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Amazon selects Austin for a factory building the robotics systems used in its warehouses, and the mayor says no incentives were requested. Who decides it?
Office of the Texas Governor decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
An MD Anderson AI model reads where T cells gather in tumor tissue, and points at mucin as a wall that may keep them out. Who decides it?
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
An MD Anderson and UT Medical Branch MRI model scored lower on patients it was not built on. Who decides it?
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, with The University of Texas Medical Branch decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Angelina County Commissioners Court adopts Resolution 010-26 asking the Legislature for authority over data centers. Who decides it?
Angelina County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Archer County Commissioners Court unanimously denies a tax abatement for a Dynamo Ventures data center. Who decides it?
Archer County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Asked for AI camera fire detections, Xcel counted cameras. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Aurora tells shareholders its driverless trucks will run straight to customer sites in November, with its truck build about six weeks behind plan. Who decides it?
Aurora Innovation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Austin City Council adopted Ordinance 20260423-029 creating City Code Chapter 2-19 on surveillance technology. Who decides it?
Austin City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Austin City Council takes up a resolution to amend the land code for data centers. Who decides it?
Austin City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Austin City Council takes up a resolution to write data centers into a land development code that has no definition of one. Who decides it?
Austin City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Austin Community College drafts what it calls its first AI policy under a five rule framework and opens it to a town hall on October 12th. Who decides it?
Austin Community College District decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Austin bars its city manager from buying any park camera or drone that depends on artificial intelligence. Who decides it?
Austin City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Blanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation District signed a resolution asking the Legislature to clarify district authority over data centers. Who decides it?
Blanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation District decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Brazoria County Commissioners Court adopted a resolution stating conditions it wants on data center development. Who decides it?
Brazoria County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Brazoria County Commissioners Court voted 5 to 0 to deny the reinvestment zone that four data center and power plant abatement applications depended on. Who decides it?
Brazoria County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Brazos County Commissioners Court assigns the RELLIS data center tax abatement to ThisWay Global after the original developer's bankruptcy. Who decides it?
Commissioners Court of Brazos County decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Brownsville takes up a temporary moratorium on data centers after staff tells the commission its code has no rules for them. Who decides it?
City of Brownsville City Commission decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Carson County Commissioners Court approves a phased tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus. Who decides it?
Carson County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Case managers beat Houston Methodist's discharge AI on the last day. Who decides it?
Houston Methodist Hospital decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
College Station City Council votes 4 to 2 to keep its Flock plate reader cameras on state and city roads. Who decides it?
College Station City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Comptroller bars state grant money from buying or renewing Flock cameras and other license plate readers. Who decides it?
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Comptroller's JETI current agreements list contains no data center project. Who decides it?
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Conroe City Council fell short of the votes needed to put its Flock camera contract on the November ballot. Who decides it?
Conroe City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Corpus Christi City Council directed staff to write a zoning amendment prohibiting data centers in every zoning district and to prepare a moratorium process. Who decides it?
Corpus Christi City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
DIR must run an AI regulatory sandbox letting state agencies test systems outside normal rules. Who decides it?
Texas Department of Information Resources decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Dallas Public Safety Committee sets a briefing on the police Flock plate reader program. Who decides it?
Dallas City Council Public Safety Committee decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Dallas issues its first code citations from the AI cameras on its brush trucks. Who decides it?
City of Dallas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Denton City Council takes up a data center moratorium resolution and a schedule of the public hearings it would require. Who decides it?
Denton City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
ERCOT pauses energizing new large data centers and crypto mines until its audit is done. Who decides it?
Electric Reliability Council of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
ERCOT starts sending the Batch Zero questionnaires, and a data center that does not answer comes off the list. Who decides it?
Electric Reliability Council of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
ERCOT tells its board that AI training loads can fatigue grid generators and drafts a limit on how fast their power draw may swing. Who decides it?
Electric Reliability Council of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
El Paso City Council adopted a letter asking Governor Abbott to clarify his data center directives. Who decides it?
El Paso City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
El Paso City Council adopts a Data Center Policy Framework requiring a Special Permit for hyperscale projects. Who decides it?
El Paso City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
El Paso City Council amends its state legislative agenda to seek protection for residential ratepayers from data center utility costs. Who decides it?
El Paso City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
El Paso City Council orders Flock plate reader cameras off city property and bars new contracts without a further vote. Who decides it?
El Paso City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
El Paso passes two plate reader items as revised, filed to take city-sited readers down and bar new contracts. Who decides it?
El Paso City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Energy Department funds a synthetic underground test pit at a Navasota drilling site to prove out mining automation. Who decides it?
U.S. Department of Energy decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Energy Department research arm funds a Houston led team using AI to search for new magnet materials. Who decides it?
U.S. Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
ExxonMobil says three of its Permian rigs now drill with robotic pipe handling, and about half its Permian fleet will by 2028. Who decides it?
ExxonMobil decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
FAA takes comment until October 11th on letting Zipline fly drone deliveries around the clock over five Texas metros. Who decides it?
Federal Aviation Administration decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Federal comment window has closed on NRC reactor licensing and siting modernization. Who decides it?
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Federal comment window has closed on adding AI questions to the American Time Use Survey. Who decides it?
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Federal commodities regulator opens comment on trading derivatives whose underlying commodity is compute. Who decides it?
Commodity Futures Trading Commission decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Federal energy department opens comment on securing the grid and names AI as why demand grew, closing October 9th. Who decides it?
United States Department of Energy decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Federal investigators opened a defect evaluation into a driverless system after crashes in Dallas and Austin. Who decides it?
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Defects Investigation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Federal regulators open an audit of how Tesla certified the Cybercab, on the day commercial deployment began in Austin. Who decides it?
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Defects Investigation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Federal survey office asks whether the household internet survey should start measuring AI use, closing November 9th. Who decides it?
National Telecommunications and Information Administration decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Federal trucking regulators let driverless trucks warn traffic with a cab beacon instead of triangles. Who decides it?
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Fort Worth City Council unanimously began a 90 day data center moratorium and adopted grid filing requirements over one dissent. Who decides it?
Fort Worth City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Four Texas campuses took roles in the Energy Department's AI for science program. Who decides it?
United States Department of Energy decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Frontera's queues close permanently on October 1st, 2026. Who decides it?
Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Google.org funds a UT Austin team to build AI surrogate models for testing fusion reactor designs. Who decides it?
Google.org decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Governor Abbott directs the utility commission and ERCOT to audit every data center in the interconnection queue before any advances. Who decides it?
Office of the Texas Governor decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Governor directs the environmental agency to issue no data center permits until the grid audit is done. Who decides it?
Office of the Texas Governor decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Governor directs the water board to enforce the state water use survey against data centers that did not return it. Who decides it?
Office of the Texas Governor decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Governor orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock plate reader cameras. Who decides it?
Office of the Texas Governor decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Grid operator asks the water board's questions and gives data centers until October 12th. Who decides it?
Electric Reliability Council of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Grid operator weighs a year's grace for data center cooling equipment on ride-through rules. Who decides it?
Electric Reliability Council of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Guadalupe County Commissioners Court unanimously approves ending the county's Flock Safety license plate reader contract. Who decides it?
Guadalupe County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Harlingen Waterworks System board approves an effluent water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a proposed data center. Who decides it?
City of Harlingen Waterworks System Board of Directors decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Harris County Commissioners Court renewed its Flock Group license plate reader and sound detection contract, then amended it to run county-wide. Who decides it?
Harris County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Hays County Commissioners Court adopted a 180-day emergency water review period for high water use developments and created a review board. Who decides it?
Hays County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Hays County posts the sheriff's promise not to switch on AI report writing without coming back to the court. Who decides it?
Hays County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Hays County takes up a policy on how it governs AI in surveillance. Who decides it?
Hays County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Homeland Security tested facial biometric capture on pedestrians walking out of the country at the Progreso International Bridge. Who decides it?
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
House Public Health held an interim hearing on artificial intelligence use in health care. Who decides it?
Texas House Committee on Public Health decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
House State Affairs held an interim hearing on data center development and the proposed 765 kV transmission lines. Who decides it?
Texas House Committee on State Affairs decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Houston ISD carried an artificial intelligence board policy to a second reading. Who decides it?
Houston Independent School District Board of Managers decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Houston Methodist put an imaging AI in front of its radiologists and says out loud that it is imperfect. Who decides it?
Houston Methodist decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Houston Methodist ties camera AI in 15 cardiothoracic surgery rooms to about 25 more cases a month, and says it can't prove the cameras caused it. Who decides it?
Houston Methodist Hospital decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Houston academic physician group moves from two ambient AI pilots toward one unified documentation platform. Who decides it?
UT Physicians, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Houston-Galveston Area Council put AI consulting services on its HGACBuy purchasing catalog under contract AI05-26. Who decides it?
Houston-Galveston Area Council (HGACBuy) decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Judges back El Paso Electric's gas plant for Meta only if other customers don't pay. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Justice Department takes comment on a judgment barring a Frisco apartment manager from rent software fed by rivals' data. Who decides it?
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a conditional use permit for a $30 million ONMINE data center. Who decides it?
City of Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Kodiak and Charger USA start hauling freight between Dallas and Laredo on autonomous trucks with a safety driver behind the wheel. Who decides it?
Kodiak AI and Charger USA decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Kodiak names Interstate 45 from Dallas to Houston as its first driverless truck lane, and says it closes its safety case before the driver comes out. Who decides it?
Kodiak AI decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Laredo City Council declined a data center moratorium, and its direction to write permanent rules has reached three agendas with no recorded action. Who decides it?
Laredo City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
League City City Council ordered a November 3rd special election on whether police may keep using automated license plate reader cameras. Who decides it?
League City City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Leander stops paying for its plate reader contract and says the police department is no longer using the cameras or the data. Who decides it?
City of Leander decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Lockheed Martin brings Hadrian's 24 machine automated machining cell into its Grand Prairie missile parts plant. Who decides it?
Lockheed Martin decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Lubbock County Commissioners Court passes a non binding disclosure resolution on large scale industrial development, four to one. Who decides it?
Lubbock County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Lubbock starts the procedure for a 90 day data center moratorium after the 18 month petition fails. Who decides it?
Lubbock City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Memorial Hermann clinicians send Houston patients an AI drafted explanation of their own test results. Who decides it?
Memorial Hermann Health System decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
NSF awarded Prairie View A and M a grant to let AI split up the grid optimization problem across processor cores. Who decides it?
U.S. National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
NSF awarded UT Austin a grant to replace hand written robot safety rules with a model trained on demonstrated safe behavior. Who decides it?
U.S. National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
NSF funds a Rice laboratory where a model designs the experiment and a robot runs it, bookable from anywhere. Who decides it?
National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
National Science Foundation awards Rice University a cooperative agreement for a self driving laboratory that designs its own semiconductor experiments. Who decides it?
National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
National Science Foundation awards Texas A and M a national user facility where robots and artificial intelligence design and test new metal alloys. Who decides it?
National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
National Science Foundation backs a Texas A&M tool that screens whether an alloy can exist before anyone makes it. Who decides it?
U.S. National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
National Science Foundation funds Rice to let AI propose numerical algorithms only where a proof checker certifies them. Who decides it?
United States National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
National Science Foundation funds Sagebrush, an AI inference platform for researchers nationwide, hosted at UT Austin's supercomputing center. Who decides it?
U.S. National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
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. Who decides it?
United States National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
National Science Foundation funds a five year human and robot co-adaptation center at UT Austin. Who decides it?
United States National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
National Science Foundation funds an open access robot run alloy laboratory at Texas A&M that outside researchers may book. Who decides it?
United States National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
National Science Foundation makes Texas Southern University one of five regional nodes in an HBCU network for AI and quantum science. Who decides it?
U.S. National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
National Science Foundation names UT El Paso in the first round of CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service awards. Who decides it?
U.S. National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
National Science Foundation puts UT Austin's supercomputing center in an operating role for the national AI research resource. Who decides it?
National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
PUCT Docket 59029, Oncor application for a second 765 kV line across ten west Texas counties. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
PUCT Docket 59315, Oncor application for a 765 kV transmission line across 22 counties. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
PUCT Project 58000, rulemaking to update ERCOT transmission cost recovery, comment deadline reached. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
PUCT Project 58482, proposed new rule on Large Load Demand Management Service, comment window now shut. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
PUCT adopts the SB 6 large load interconnection rule, requires $50,000 per megawatt of security and drops the interconnection fee. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
PUCT open meeting calendar published as a live feed through mid 2027. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
PUCT told an Armstrong County AI data center to shed its whole load, then left those conditions in place. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
PUCT wildfire plan blueprint lists cameras suggested, not required. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
PUCT's first five year review of the ERCOT system-wide offer caps closed to comment on September 17th. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD's JETI agreement for the Energy Forge One power plant is executed and posted. Who decides it?
Pecos-Barstow-Toyah Independent School District Board of Trustees decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Permian Resources tells investors it now runs an AI system that watches its artificial lift. Who decides it?
Permian Resources decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Pflugerville orders a November election on charter amendments, one of them a section on the city's use of artificial intelligence. Who decides it?
Pflugerville City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Pflugerville's City Council adopts SAFE standards for how the city uses technology, with facial recognition covered. Who decides it?
Pflugerville City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Plano's City Council takes up to $390,000 for ChatGPT Enterprise and the Darwin AI platform. Who decides it?
Plano City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Reeves County Emergency Services District No. 2 takes up a Chapter 312 abatement for a gas plant built to run data centers. Who decides it?
Reeves County Emergency Services District No. 2 decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Rice University sets out to hire 40 more AI faculty, for 75 this decade, and to take lab space at The Arc in Houston's Ion District. Who decides it?
Rice University decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Rice University sets out to hire 75 faculty working on AI and plans a research building for it in Houston's Ion District. Who decides it?
Rice University decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Richardson ISD drafts a legislative ask that puts classroom AI guidance first. Who decides it?
Richardson Independent School District Board of Trustees decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Round Rock says its zoning does not cover drone delivery hubs as Zipline starts flying from one outside city limits. Who decides it?
City of Round Rock decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
San Angelo City Council caps data center cooling water by ordinance. Who decides it?
City of San Angelo City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
San Angelo sets reporting rules for data center coolant discharged into the city sewer. Who decides it?
City of San Angelo City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
San Angelo writes data centers into its zoning code and makes them a conditional use only. Who decides it?
City of San Angelo City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
San Antonio council requires its own approval for every new data center. Who decides it?
San Antonio City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
San Antonio counts loose dogs in 32 study areas with phone cameras and object detection software. Who decides it?
City of San Antonio Animal Care Services decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
San Antonio takes two data center zoning proposals to a public hearing on October 20th and a council vote on October 29th. Who decides it?
San Antonio City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
San Marcos City Council voted 4 to 3 to define data centers in its land development code and make them ineligible citywide. Who decides it?
San Marcos City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Saronic breaks ground at the Port of Brownsville on Port Alpha, a shipyard built to make autonomous and crewed ships, on a Cameron County abatement. Who decides it?
Cameron County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Science foundation funds a Texas A&M engineering station to build AI digital twins of small water systems. Who decides it?
National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Senate Economic Development holds its reset hearing on AI and the Texas workforce on September 22nd. Who decides it?
Texas Senate Committee on Economic Development decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Senate Transportation held its August 25th hearing on how driverless vehicles are being deployed under SB 2807. Who decides it?
Texas Senate Committee on Transportation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Senate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs has held both sittings on data center cooling water and published no recommendation. Who decides it?
Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Soluna and Applied Digital agree to build an AI data center beside the Briscoe Wind Farm, if Briscoe County grants a tax abatement. Who decides it?
Soluna Holdings and Applied Digital decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
SpaceX asks Starbase for a tax abatement on a $24 billion gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility beside Brownsville, with a hearing December 9th. Who decides it?
City Commission of the City of Starbase decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
SpaceX will build the Terafab semiconductor plant in Grimes County on a state grant and two school district agreements. Who decides it?
Office of the Texas Governor decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
State education staff helped Alpha School's AI platform into pilots in Houston, Aldine and Fort Davis. Who decides it?
Houston ISD, Aldine ISD and Fort Davis ISD decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
State technology agency publishes how it is implementing the four AI laws of the 89th Legislature. Who decides it?
Texas Department of Information Resources decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Statute requires state agencies and local governments to post standardized notice of AI systems. Who decides it?
Texas Department of Information Resources decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
TACC retires Frontera after more than eight million jobs, and a UT Southwestern simulation that needed 64 of its CPU nodes runs nearly as fast on eight Vista GPU nodes. Who decides it?
Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
TCEQ canceled the Carson County public meeting on Fermi Equipment Holdco's new air permits and says it will be rescheduled. Who decides it?
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
TCEQ canceled the San Antonio notice and comment hearing on Vantage Data Centers TX11's air permit O4791. Who decides it?
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief Clerk decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
TCEQ has four data center air permit applications posted with published public notices, including Crusoe's two Texas campuses. Who decides it?
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Air Permits Division decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
TCEQ issues preliminary decision and opens comment on Crusoe's gas power plant at the Abilene data center campus. Who decides it?
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
TRAIGA in force as Business and Commerce Code Chapter 552, enforceable only by the Attorney General. Who decides it?
Office of the Attorney General of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
TRAIGA preempts city and county regulation of artificial intelligence. Who decides it?
Texas Legislature decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Tarrant Regional Water District says it has signed no water supply contract for a data center and that the Cedar Creek request was withdrawn. Who decides it?
Tarrant Regional Water District Board of Directors decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Taylor City Council approves an agreement to annex a 664 acre data center campus under written water, setback and noise terms. Who decides it?
Taylor City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Taylor City Council unanimously approved the amended Compal tax abatement agreement. Who decides it?
Taylor City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Temple Planning and Zoning Commission takes up a Unified Development Code amendment that would require a Conditional Use Permit for every future data center. Who decides it?
City of Temple Planning and Zoning Commission decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Tesla's own capacity table puts the Cybercab in production in Texas and lists the Texas Optimus robot line as still under construction. Who decides it?
Tesla, Inc. decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Texas 2036 finds AI in most Texas classrooms and a written AI policy in few districts, and asks the state for guidance. Who decides it?
Texas 2036, a nonprofit public policy organization decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Texas A&M builds a language model that sorts disaster posts for emergency managers, and it has not yet been used in a live disaster. Who decides it?
Texas A&M University decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Texas A&M researchers find language models trained on junk social media posts start skipping reasoning steps, and better data doesn't fully fix them. Who decides it?
Texas A&M University decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Texas A&M scientists use AlphaFold to screen every pairing of human mitochondrial proteins and publish the likely partners free. Who decides it?
Texas A&M AgriLife Research decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Texas A&M takes a $2 million WoodNext Foundation grant to build the Aggie AI Foundry, where AI and robots would design and test new metal alloys. Who decides it?
Texas A&M University decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Texas A&M tells its campus to run AI through a university portal rather than a public chatbot. Who decides it?
Texas A&M University Technology Services decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Texas Children's and Baylor researchers name a likely genetic cause of a rare disorder after an AI tool flagged the gene. Who decides it?
Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, with Baylor College of Medicine and the Texome Project decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Texas Children's and UT Southwestern radiologists publish that imaging AI has largely skipped children. Who decides it?
American Journal of Roentgenology Expert Panel, with radiologists at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital and at UT Southwestern Medical Center decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Texas Government Code Chapter 2054 carries three conflicting Subchapter S's on AI, with duplicated section numbers. Who decides it?
Texas Legislature decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Texas State University moves an AI pavement inspection method toward statewide highway use. Who decides it?
Texas State University decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
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. Who decides it?
Texas Water Development Board decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Texas requires AI training for state and local government employees, and this is the first annual cycle. Who decides it?
Texas Legislature decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Texas requires a state authorization to run driverless vehicles commercially, with no fee, no expiry and no crash history asked. Who decides it?
Texas Department of Motor Vehicles decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The Army funds a Rice research center on antenna arrays that carries AI as one of six disciplines. Who decides it?
United States Army Research Office decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The Fifteenth Court of Appeals leaves Bot Auto free to keep building driverless trucks while TuSimple's successor sues it over trade secrets. Who decides it?
Fifteenth Court of Appeals decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The Hays County Clerk asks the commissioners court to buy AI that writes the county's official minutes. Who decides it?
Hays County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The House committee on government efficiency is charged with studying whether the state should use artificial intelligence to find fraud in its own spending. Who decides it?
Texas House Committee on Delivery of Government Efficiency decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The National Science Foundation funds a Texas A&M project to build AI digital twins of small and mid-sized water systems. Who decides it?
U.S. National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The National Science Foundation funds a UT Austin center to put assistive robots into occupied homes, workplaces and care facilities. Who decides it?
U.S. National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
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. Who decides it?
U.S. National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The National Science Foundation puts the national AI research resource into standing operations, co-run from Austin. Who decides it?
U.S. National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The Supreme Court of Texas heard argument on whether a deposition transcript made with AI can stand without a certified court reporter. Who decides it?
Supreme Court of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The Texas A&M System's shared AI supercomputer enters the world list at number 66. Who decides it?
The Texas A&M University System decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The University of North Texas takes a twenty million dollar gift and names a college of artificial intelligence after the donors. Who decides it?
University of North Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The University of Texas at Austin requires every course syllabus to state its AI policy. Who decides it?
The University of Texas at Austin, Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
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. Who decides it?
Texas State Board of Education decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The grid operator sends every conditionally classified large load a questionnaire, with a notarized attestation and ten business days to answer. Who decides it?
Electric Reliability Council of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The grid operator sets an October 6th workshop on how it would curtail a large load under Senate Bill 6. Who decides it?
Electric Reliability Council of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The grid operator tells providers which large loads it has provisionally placed in Batch Zero, and every placement carries a condition. Who decides it?
Electric Reliability Council of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The state's chip fund gives Texas Tech over $19 million for an AI computing cluster in Lubbock that is meant to speed up semiconductor research. Who decides it?
Texas CHIPS Office, Office of the Governor (Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund) decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
The utility commission sues the Attorney General to keep the county and water planning area of each surveyed data center from release. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Tom Green County Commissioners Court declines a Precinct 4 moratorium on data centers and large energy projects. Who decides it?
Tom Green County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Two Texas House committees take up data centers and AI in health care on August 19th and August 20th. Who decides it?
Texas House of Representatives decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
TxDOT starts Project Nexus, a three year state test of next generation aircraft whose first flights carry no passengers. Who decides it?
Texas Department of Transportation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
USDA's Kerrville laboratory builds AI models that pick where, when and how many sterile flies to release against New World screwworm. Who decides it?
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT Arlington develops a federally funded AI tutor and tests related technology with Fort Worth police. Who decides it?
The University of Texas at Arlington decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT Arlington replaces its business analytics degrees with artificial intelligence degrees. Who decides it?
University of Texas at Arlington College of Business decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT Austin funds four fusion seed grants and says in its own release that the AI method offers limited guarantees. Who decides it?
The University of Texas at Austin decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT Austin puts a computer science and AI course in the core every undergraduate takes. Who decides it?
University of Texas at Austin decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT REAL Health AI funds 12 pilot projects that put AI into UT System hospitals and medical schools. Who decides it?
The University of Texas System decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT REAL Health AI signs a systemwide agreement letting UT health institutions use Abridge's ambient note taking. Who decides it?
The University of Texas System decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT San Antonio builds a free training platform where students learn to find the security flaws in code an AI wrote. Who decides it?
National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the chip rather than in the cloud. Who decides it?
The University of Texas at San Antonio decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT San Antonio builds a solar powered flood sensor that runs its model on the device instead of a server. Who decides it?
The University of Texas at San Antonio decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT Southwestern finds AI triage models moved some emergency patients who later got worse down the line after one stigmatizing detail was added. Who decides it?
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT Southwestern says AI now does most of the grading on its medical students' clinical exam notes. Who decides it?
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT System Board of Regents approved a School of Computing at UT Austin uniting computer science, information, statistics and data sciences. Who decides it?
The University of Texas System Board of Regents decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT System Board of Regents approves $25 million to finish San Pedro II for UTSA's College of AI, Cyber and Computing. Who decides it?
The University of Texas System Board of Regents decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UT System Regents put the first billion dollars of the UT Dell Medical Center into the capital program. Who decides it?
University of Texas System Board of Regents decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UTEP and El Paso Water test whether a NASA backed AI model can map flooded streets from satellite images after a storm. Who decides it?
The University of Texas at El Paso decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UTMB moved its Epic health record into Microsoft's cloud and named advanced technologies as the reason. Who decides it?
The University of Texas Medical Branch decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
UTMB puts OpenEvidence's AI answers inside its health record and says more than half of its clinicians use it. Who decides it?
University of Texas Medical Branch decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
University of North Texas lists an undergraduate artificial intelligence degree. Who decides it?
University of North Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Utilities Code limits how the PUCT may direct ERCOT, and bars verbal directives. Who decides it?
Texas Legislature decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Utility commission approves a 765 kilovolt line from Somervell County to Howard County. Who decides it?
Public Utility Commission of Texas decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Volvo and Waabi start hauling a customer's freight between Dallas and Houston on autonomous trucks, with an observer in the driver's seat. Who decides it?
Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Waabi decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Waymo opens its San Antonio robotaxis to anyone with the app, the airport included, while its flood recall remedy is still listed as under development. Who decides it?
Waymo LLC decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
West Texas A&M wins a USDA grant to build a research feedlot near Canyon that will test feeding, health and handling with AI powered methods. Who decides it?
U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Wichita Falls Planning and Zoning Commission approves a conditional use permit for a DataNovaX data center on Airport Drive. Who decides it?
City of Wichita Falls Planning and Zoning Commission decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Williamson County Commissioners Court granted Compal USA Technology a Chapter 312 abatement for a Georgetown server service center. Who decides it?
Williamson County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Young County Commissioners Court receives the Project Saltworks tax abatement application and ratifies a developer funded escrow for consultants. Who decides it?
Young County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.