The Lone Star State may surpass Virginia as the largest domestic data center market by 2030, according to JLL’s North America 2025 Year-End Data Center report. Texas currently has roughly 4 gigawatts ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Utility regulators in Texas will start asking data centers and crypto-mining operations statewide within a narrow timeframe to share information about how much water they’re using and ...

Texas State Technical College (TSTC) in Abilene is now offering specialized training for data center operators. The new 224-hour course covers electrical systems, ...

Move aside, Virginia. It looks like Texas will soon overtake you as the official U.S. data center HQ. A 2025 data center report from JLL found that Texas is likely to overtake Virginia as the largest ...

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A month after the state’s grid operator said it would pull together data centers and other large load projects that have been waiting to connect to the grid into a group called “batch zero,” that ...

SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — The Texas State University System Board of Regents has approved a $25 million expansion of the ALERRT Center, a nationally-recognized training facility that prepares first ...

Aerial view of Cheryl Shadden's home with the Marathon Digital bitcoin mine in the background in Hood County. The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) plans to conduct a survey to study the water ...

At least 25 million Americans — including roughly half of Texas’ population — were swept up in a massive data breach at tech firm Conduent, exposing sensitive information such as Social Security ...

The control room at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on May 15, 2018. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is changing the way it evaluates its transmission capacity to ...

After hours of testimony from dozens of residents, Hood County commissioners voted down a proposed temporary pause on new industrial development, including data centers, after a letter from a state ...

TotalEnergies has signed two long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Google to supply a combined 1 gigawatt (GW) of solar capacity to the tech giant’s data centers in Texas. The agreements ...