Data centers

• Comptroller's JETI current agreements list contains no data center project

  Data centersTexas Comptroller of Public AccountsStatewideWrite to the decider

• Temple Planning and Zoning Commission takes up a Unified Development Code amendment that would require a Conditional Use Permit for every future data center

  Data centersCity of Temple Planning and Zoning CommissionBellPublic meeting

• Taylor City Council unanimously approved the amended Compal tax abatement agreement

  Data centersTaylor City CouncilWilliamsonPublic meeting

• Williamson County Commissioners Court granted Compal USA Technology a Chapter 312 abatement for a Georgetown server service center

  Data centersWilliamson County Commissioners CourtWilliamsonWrite to the decider

• Killeen Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a conditional use permit for a $30 million ONMINE data center

  Data centersCity of Killeen Planning and Zoning CommissionBellPublic meeting

• El Paso City Council adopts a Data Center Policy Framework requiring a Special Permit for hyperscale projects

  Data centersEl Paso City CouncilEl PasoPublic meeting

• El Paso City Council adopted a letter asking Governor Abbott to clarify his data center directives

  Data centersEl Paso City CouncilEl PasoClosed

• Laredo City Council declined a data center moratorium, and its direction to write permanent rules has reached three agendas with no recorded action

  Data centersLaredo City CouncilWebbPublic meeting

• Wichita Falls Planning and Zoning Commission approves a conditional use permit for a DataNovaX data center on Airport Drive

  Data centersCity of Wichita Falls Planning and Zoning CommissionWichitaPublic meeting

• Young County Commissioners Court receives the Project Saltworks tax abatement application and ratifies a developer funded escrow for consultants

  Data centersYoung County Commissioners CourtYoungPublic meeting

• Archer County Commissioners Court unanimously denies a tax abatement for a Dynamo Ventures data center

  Data centersArcher County Commissioners CourtArcherPublic meeting

• Angelina County Commissioners Court adopts Resolution 010-26 asking the Legislature for authority over data centers

  Data centersAngelina County Commissioners CourtAngelinaPublic meeting

• Lubbock County Commissioners Court passes a non binding disclosure resolution on large scale industrial development, four to one

  Data centersLubbock County Commissioners CourtLubbockPublic meeting

• Carson County Commissioners Court approves a phased tax abatement agreement with Fermi America for the Project Matador HyperGrid campus

  Data centersCarson County Commissioners CourtCarsonPublic meeting

• Corpus Christi City Council directed staff to write a zoning amendment prohibiting data centers in every zoning district and to prepare a moratorium process

  Data centersCorpus Christi City CouncilNuecesPublic meeting

• Brazoria County Commissioners Court voted 5 to 0 to deny the reinvestment zone that four data center and power plant abatement applications depended on

  Data centersBrazoria County Commissioners CourtBrazoriaPublic meeting

• Brazoria County Commissioners Court adopted a resolution stating conditions it wants on data center development

  Data centersBrazoria County Commissioners CourtBrazoriaPublic meeting

• San Angelo writes data centers into its zoning code and makes them a conditional use only

  Data centersCity of San Angelo City CouncilTom GreenPublic meeting

• Tom Green County Commissioners Court declines a Precinct 4 moratorium on data centers and large energy projects

  Data centersTom Green County Commissioners CourtTom GreenPublic meeting

• Governor Abbott directs the utility commission and ERCOT to audit every data center in the interconnection queue before any advances

  Data centersOffice of the Texas GovernorStatewidePublic meeting

• House State Affairs held an interim hearing on data center development and the proposed 765 kV transmission lines

  Data centersTexas House Committee on State AffairsStatewideWrite to the decider

• Denton City Council takes up a data center moratorium resolution and a schedule of the public hearings it would require

  Data centersDenton City CouncilDentonPublic meeting

• Brazos County Commissioners Court assigns the RELLIS data center tax abatement to ThisWay Global after the original developer's bankruptcy

  Data centersCommissioners Court of Brazos CountyBrazosPublic meeting

• Austin City Council takes up a resolution to write data centers into a land development code that has no definition of one

  Data centersAustin City CouncilTravisPublic meeting

• A statewide poll finds most Texas voters oppose a data center in their own community for a second survey running

  Data centersTexas Politics Project at the University of Texas at AustinStatewideWrite to the decider

• PUCT told an Armstrong County AI data center to shed its whole load, then left those conditions in place

  Data centersPublic Utility Commission of TexasArmstrongWrite to the decider

• Austin City Council takes up a resolution to amend the land code for data centers

  Data centersAustin City CouncilTravisPublic meeting

• Brownsville takes up a temporary moratorium on data centers after staff tells the commission its code has no rules for them

  Data centersCity of Brownsville City CommissionCameronPublic meeting

• Lubbock starts the procedure for a 90 day data center moratorium after the 18 month petition fails

  Data centersLubbock City CouncilLubbockPublic meeting

• 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

  Data centersGalaxy Digital Inc.DickensWrite to the decider

• Judges back El Paso Electric's gas plant for Meta only if other customers don't pay

  Data centersPublic Utility Commission of TexasEl PasoPublic meeting

• Amazon and Wiwynn say they will expand the El Paso County plant that builds the racks going into AI data centers

  Data centersAmazon.com, Inc. and Wiwynn CorporationEl PasoWrite to the decider

• ERCOT pauses energizing new large data centers and crypto mines until its audit is done

  Data centersElectric Reliability Council of TexasStatewideWrite to the decider

• Taylor City Council approves an agreement to annex a 664 acre data center campus under written water, setback and noise terms

  Data centersTaylor City CouncilWilliamsonClosed

• The utility commission sues the Attorney General to keep the county and water planning area of each surveyed data center from release

  Data centersPublic Utility Commission of TexasStatewideWrite to the decider

• San Antonio takes two data center zoning proposals to a public hearing on October 20th and a council vote on October 29th

  Data centersSan Antonio City CouncilBexarPublic meeting

• Soluna and Applied Digital agree to build an AI data center beside the Briscoe Wind Farm, if Briscoe County grants a tax abatement

  Data centersSoluna Holdings and Applied DigitalBriscoeWrite to the decider

• San Antonio council requires its own approval for every new data center

  Data centersSan Antonio City CouncilBexar, Comal, MedinaWrite to the decider

• A Sugar Land maker of AI data center optics says its United States expansion is waiting on electrical power

  Data centersApplied OptoelectronicsFort BendWrite to the decider

• 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

  Data centersCity Commission of the City of StarbaseCameronPublic meeting

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