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May 26, 2026

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Disclosure Is Coming. Developers Tracking Water Now Won't Break Stride.

University of Texas at Austin research projects data centers could consume up to 9% of Texas's water supply by 2040, against roughly 1% today.

May 25, 2026

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Texas Ranks First on Power. A 5,500-Person Town Decides the Water.

Texas tops Labrynth's new 50-state Data Center Readiness Index, with Oregon, Illinois, and Florida rounding out the top four across nine dimensions including grid reliability, interconnection, permitting, and water supply.

May 5, 2026

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Seven Hyperscalers Sign On: Self-Funded Power Is the New Permit Price

NERC documented multiple events in 2024 and 2025 where more than 1 GW of computational load dropped simultaneously, on the East Coast and in Texas, with no utility planning model catching it.

May 3, 2026

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MARA's $1.5B Long Ridge Buy Sets the New AI Infrastructure Playbook

Behind the deal sits a structural reality: ERCOT's large-load queue swelled from roughly 63 GW at end-2024 to about 410 GW by early 2026, with 73-87% from datacenters, against an all-time Texas peak of ~85 GW.

April 24, 2026

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Cancellations Quadrupled. Abilene's 2.1 GW Answer Is Off the Grid.

The American Farm Bureau Federation notes Texas ranks second nationally with 546 active or under-construction facilities behind Virginia's 706, with Goldman Sachs projecting a 10.4 GW supply gap persisting into 2028.

April 16, 2026

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Engage Early or Inherit Someone Else's Moratorium

Developers operating where rules already exist, including Texas with its ERCOT and PUC processes, hold a structural advantage that widens with each statehouse pause.

April 15, 2026

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Build Your Own Power Plant or Lose Your Place in Line

A new HARC report reveals that Texas's 464 data centers consume approximately 25 billion gallons of water annually (0.4% of statewide use), but projections swing wildly: 29 billion to 161 billion gallons by 2030 depending on cooling technology choices.

April 8, 2026

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Texas Built Its Tax Break for Yesterday's Data Center Market

The state leads the nation with 300 operating data centers and 142 under construction, but that dominance was built partly on an incentive structure legislators now call "unsustainable."

April 4, 2026

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Developers Who Own Their Power Are Writing the New Site Selection Rules

Meanwhile, Texas has become the proving ground for how that model gets regulated.

March 16, 2026

JLL specifically names Texas and Ireland as markets where "bring your own power" mandates are forcing operators to become energy developers.

March 11, 2026

Texas doesn't have that reassurance yet.

March 8, 2026

A 6 GW-plus pipeline across Virginia, Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiana, Nevada, and Pennsylvania positions PowerHouse as a national player.

March 4, 2026

The move arrives as data shows datacenter-heavy states like Virginia (15.94 cents/kWh) and Texas (16.04 cents/kWh) already charge below the national average of 17.24 cents/kWh, undermining the narrative that datacenters drive rate hikes.

February 27, 2026

Texas is pulling away from Northern Virginia as the datacenter capital of North America, with 6.5 GW under construction and 22 GW slated for deployment, but the sprint is already stumbling: six Texas projects are delayed and the industry faces a 30-50% slippage rate on scheduled 2026 deliveries.

February 24, 2026

Texas is the geographic pivot: JLL projects the state could surpass Northern Virginia as North America's top datacenter market by 2030, with 6.5 GW currently under construction representing one-fifth of all U.S. pipeline additions last year.

February 19, 2026

Texas is on track to overtake Northern Virginia as the world's largest data center market by 2030, with 6.5 GW under construction and a structural shift in site selection now driven almost entirely by power availability.