Texas Orders Data Center Permit Halt
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Data center construction is booming, with many more planned for rural America. But there's also growing tension between economic development and community pushback.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas backed off the standards it proposed in March, eliminating a non-refundable interconnection fee, halving its financial security requirement and extending energization milestone deadlines.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating whether a Taylor AI data center sits on land legally bound as public parkland. Here's what to know.
As tech companies race to develop artificial intelligence, developers are forging ahead with data centers. But the boom is facing backlash from communities.
While data centers aren't the same as oil and gas operations, a lot of the questions the industries face are similar.
ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) — Texas State Senator Charles Perry is seeking another term in the Texas Senate, saying water, power and the growth of artificial intelligence data centers are among the issues he wants to continue working on.
Texas ranchers sitting on acreage data centers desperately need are discovering the lease deal can do something the rent check barely hints at: quietly reshape when and whether Social Security needs to start at all.
North Texas, where bitter fights have lately broken out over proposals in Westlake and Red Oak, already ranks among the biggest data center hubs in the world. Analysts expect a lot more to come.