Land, water and permitting

• Hays County Commissioners Court adopted a 180-day emergency water review period for high water use developments and created a review board

  Land, water and permittingHays County Commissioners CourtHaysPublic meeting

• Harlingen Waterworks System board approves an effluent water supply agreement with RGV Property LLC for a proposed data center

  Land, water and permittingCity of Harlingen Waterworks System Board of DirectorsCameronPublic meeting

• Amarillo City Council authorizes a twenty year water supply agreement selling city water to Fermi America's Project Matador

  Land, water and permittingAmarillo City CouncilPotter, Randall, CarsonPublic meeting

• 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

  Land, water and permittingTexas Water Development BoardStatewidePublic meeting

• TCEQ canceled the Carson County public meeting on Fermi Equipment Holdco's new air permits and says it will be rescheduled

  Land, water and permittingTexas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief ClerkCarsonPublic meeting

• TCEQ canceled the San Antonio notice and comment hearing on Vantage Data Centers TX11's air permit O4791

  Land, water and permittingTexas Commission on Environmental Quality, Office of the Chief ClerkBexarPublic meeting

• Tarrant Regional Water District says it has signed no water supply contract for a data center and that the Cedar Creek request was withdrawn

  Land, water and permittingTarrant Regional Water District Board of DirectorsTarrant, HendersonPublic meeting

• Blanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation District signed a resolution asking the Legislature to clarify district authority over data centers

  Land, water and permittingBlanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation DistrictBlancoPublic meeting

• San Marcos City Council voted 4 to 3 to define data centers in its land development code and make them ineligible citywide

  Land, water and permittingSan Marcos City CouncilHaysWrite to the decider

• Fort Worth City Council unanimously began a 90 day data center moratorium and adopted grid filing requirements over one dissent

  Land, water and permittingFort Worth City CouncilTarrantPublic meeting

• TCEQ has four data center air permit applications posted with published public notices, including Crusoe's two Texas campuses

  Land, water and permittingTexas Commission on Environmental Quality, Air Permits DivisionStatewideWrite to the decider

• TCEQ issues preliminary decision and opens comment on Crusoe's gas power plant at the Abilene data center campus

  Land, water and permittingTexas Commission on Environmental QualityTaylorWrite to the decider

• San Angelo City Council caps data center cooling water by ordinance

  Land, water and permittingCity of San Angelo City CouncilTom GreenPublic meeting

• San Angelo sets reporting rules for data center coolant discharged into the city sewer

  Land, water and permittingCity of San Angelo City CouncilTom GreenPublic meeting

• A Texas Senate committee set a hearing on how much water data center cooling uses and whether local water providers are told

  Land, water and permittingTexas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural AffairsStatewideWrite to the decider

• Governor directs the water board to enforce the state water use survey against data centers that did not return it

  Land, water and permittingOffice of the Texas GovernorStatewideWrite to the decider

• Grid operator asks the water board's questions and gives data centers until October 12th

  Land, water and permittingElectric Reliability Council of TexasStatewideWrite to the decider

• The National Science Foundation funds a Texas A&M project to build AI digital twins of small and mid-sized water systems

  Land, water and permittingU.S. National Science FoundationBrazosWrite to the decider

• Governor directs the environmental agency to issue no data center permits until the grid audit is done

  Land, water and permittingOffice of the Texas GovernorStatewideWrite to the decider

• Round Rock says its zoning does not cover drone delivery hubs as Zipline starts flying from one outside city limits

  Land, water and permittingCity of Round RockWilliamsonWrite to the decider

• Permian Resources tells investors it now runs an AI system that watches its artificial lift

  Land, water and permittingPermian ResourcesReevesWrite to the decider

• ExxonMobil says three of its Permian rigs now drill with robotic pipe handling, and about half its Permian fleet will by 2028

  Land, water and permittingExxonMobilMidlandWrite to the decider

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