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Texas · Construction & power moves · 40
full tracker →Land, power, and interconnection moves across Texas — each traced to primary filings.
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ERCOT Welcomes the City of Caldwell to the ERCOT System
Source: ERCOT · Mar 12, 2026ERCOT reported on Mar. 12, 2026 that “the City of Caldwell’s municipal utility has joined the ERCOT System,” and that the city “has completed its transition into the ERCOT grid following the approval by the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) on April 24, 2025.” ERCOT also said the “Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) Transmission Services Corporation is responsible for the transmission system that connects Caldwell to the ERCOT grid.”
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ERCOT Expects Tight Grid Conditions, Requests Conservation Today from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. CT
Source: ERCOT · Aug 30, 2023ERCOT said it was asking Texans to conserve electricity from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. CT because “operating reserves for ERCOT are expected to be low this evening” due to “a high level of unexpected thermal generation outages and forecasted low wind generation” (ERCOT, Aug. 30, 2023). ERCOT also said it “has obtained Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) enforcement discretion,” allowing generators to extend operations to help meet demand and maintain reliability.
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Resource Adequacy 2021
Source: ERCOTERCOT’s 2021 Resource Adequacy page in Texas points readers to its monthly generator interconnection information for “planned generation resources in the ERCOT Region” and notes that its capacity charts include “planned projects being studied as part of the interconnection request process.” The same page also flags drought monitoring for generation resources, saying ERCOT screens for “potential drought-related impacts to generation resources” over the next 6 to 18 months.
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Resource Adequacy 2022
Source: ERCOTERCOT’s 2022 Resource Adequacy page points readers to the “Monthly Generator Interconnection Status Report” for “the latest public interconnection information on planned generation resources in the ERCOT Region,” and says the GIS report covers “planned projects being studied as part of the interconnection request process” (ERCOT). The page also hosts broader resource-adequacy materials such as SARA and CDR reports, but it does not itself give project-level queue counts or outcomes.
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Resource Adequacy 2016
Source: ERCOT · Jan 01, 2016ERCOT’s 2016 Resource Adequacy page says the Texas PUC and ERCOT Board were “evaluating possible approaches to encourage new generation development within the ERCOT region to maintain adequate capacity reserves,” and that the section included “materials with the PUC’s review of the reliability standard for the ERCOT region” (ERCOT).
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Recent Texas data center news
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Fluence books first big data centre deals, but manufacturing ramp-up delays hit revenues
Fluence has announced adjusted FY2026 guidance after reporting Q3 and nine-month results for the period ending 30 June 2026.
- The company cited manufacturing delays at two new contract manufacturing facilities, including a three-month delay at its Houston, Texas BESS enclosure factory and quality issues at an overseas factory.
- Fluence reported US$649.8 million revenue for Q3 2026, US$1.44 billion in quarterly order intake, US$6.4 billion backlog, and US$850 million of data centre deals; it revised FY2026 revenue guidance to US$2.9 billion-US$3.1 billion and adjusted EBITDA to US$-30 million to US$10 million.
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A new way to watch heat move through electronics
MIT researchers have demonstrated a new X-ray and laser-based method to study heat flow in multilayer materials, with potential applications for electronics and chip design.
- The team used ultrafast X-rays and laser pulses to measure heat transfer in a gallium nitride on silicon device, identifying a single micron-scale defect that caused a fourfold reduction in heat transfer at that spot.
- The work was published in Nature Communications and includes researchers from MIT, University of Texas at Austin, and Argonne National Laboratory; it was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, and the MIT School of Engineering Distinguished Energy Efficiency Fellowship.
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Dallas Startup Mousterian Inks Deal for First U.S. Floating Data Center
Mousterian Corp. and Samsung Heavy Industries have announced their first U.S. moored floating data center project under a new engineering contract.
- The contract covers basic design, detailed engineering, and production design for purpose-built floating data center units, each designed to deliver 50 megawatts of critical IT capacity.
- The pilot is planned for deployment in Texas and other U.S. markets; the parties expect a future EPC contract after engineering is completed, and the American Bureau of Shipping is expected to serve as classification society.
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Power Bottlenecks Push Data Centers Beyond Traditional Hubs
DCByte has released a report on how power availability is increasingly determining global data center development and shifting growth toward secondary markets.
- The report says the global data center index measures markets by demand (40%), delivery (35%), and depth (25%); Ashburn, Virginia led the Americas, Johor, Malaysia led Asia-Pacific, and London led EMEA.
- It notes that Ashburn has 5.6 GW of live capacity and 15 GW in pipeline as of Q1, while grid connections can take five to seven years there; Johor has grown from less than 10 MW five years ago to about 1 GW in four years. The report also highlights constraints in Tokyo, Dublin, and Amsterdam, and says operators face risks from transformers, switchgear, gas turbines, fiber diversity, water, construction labor, and liquid cooling / AI rack densities above 100 kW.
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Facing an Estimated 474 GW of Interconnection Requests, Texas Hits Pause on Data Centers
Utility Dive has quoted Troutman Pepper Locke’s article on Texas’s pause on data center grid connections, describing it as a delay of indeterminate duration and advising stakeholders to reassess project timelines.
- Law firm blog post: Troutman Pepper Locke published “Texas Hits Pause on Data Center Grid Connections Amid Growing Oversight Push,” which was cited by Utility Dive on August 5, 2026.
- Key guidance: the firm said power generation and infrastructure investors, as well as tech companies and hyperscalers, should evaluate project viability, development timelines, lender security interests, and new disclosure and compliance requirements tied to future interconnection approvals.
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Data infrastructure, energy, rural health among West Texas Legislative Summit priorities
The San Angelo Chamber of Commerce has announced the 2026 West Texas Legislative Summit, scheduled for Aug. 5-6 in San Angelo, Texas, with sessions covering rural health, nuclear energy, digital infrastructure, AI, data centers, and the Texas energy grid.
- The summit is hosted by the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce with honorary co-hosts Congressman August Pfluger, Texas Sen. Charles Perry, and Texas Rep. Drew Darby; the main event runs Aug. 6 from 7:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. at the CJ Davidson Conference Center on the Angelo State University campus.
- The agenda includes panels on Nuclear Energy and the Texas Power Landscape, Digital Infrastructure, Energy, and Water Resources in West Texas, and two AI/data center sessions: “Watts & Bytes: The Crossroads of AI, Data Centers, and Texas Energy” and “Data Centers & Local Communities: Burden or Benefit?”; the welcome event, Summit Soiree, is set for 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 5 at the Cactus Hotel.
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The POWER Interview: NRG’s Case for Bring Your Own Power—and the Labor to Build It
NRG Energy has announced its first Bring Your Own Power (BYOP) project: a 1.2-GW combined-cycle plant in Texas supported by a 15-year contract with a global cloud and artificial-intelligence hyperscaler.
- The project has a $3.2 billion estimated cost, is targeted for commercial operation in late 2029, and could be expanded to 2.4 GW; NRG said it has agreed principal commercial terms but still needs final investment decision approval, with land-related matters still ongoing.
- NRG said roughly 95% of free cash flow would be backed by capacity payments; the company also cited $2,700/kW build cost, a 12% to 15% pretax unlevered IRR target, and said the plant is designed to operate connected to the grid or in island mode. The article also includes an interview with Matthew Pistner discussing Texas data-center load growth, labor constraints, and NRG’s broader development strategy.
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Patented: Solenic Medical’s Implant-Infection Device and 120 More Inventions Across North Texas
Solenic Medical has announced progress toward a pivotal clinical trial for its SOLA-2 alternating magnetic field system after receiving FDA Investigational Device Exemption approval.
- The company said the FDA approved its Investigational Device Exemption on June 23, 2026, clearing it to begin a pivotal trial for patients with periprosthetic joint infections and infected knee replacements.
- The trial is expected to enroll patients in the second half of 2026 at national orthopedic and academic centers; Solenic estimates global healthcare costs from these infections at more than $6 billion a year, potentially rising above $15 billion by 2035.
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How Geographic Diversity Reduces Downtime Risk
DataBank has published a customer testimonial about disaster recovery and geographic diversity across multiple locations.
- The customer says spreading critical infrastructure across multiple DataBank locations, including Dallas and Virginia, helped reduce risk and improve operational resilience.
- The testimonial emphasizes protection against severe weather, regional outages, power or infrastructure disruptions, single-site dependency, and business continuity gaps; it also links to DataBank’s colocation and disaster recovery as a service pages, including FedRAMP and FISMA compliance information.
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Texas Hits Pause on Data Center Grid Connections Amid Growing Oversight Push
Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to audit all data center projects in ERCOT’s interconnection process before any further approvals, and ERCOT has suspended Batch Zero Large Load classification notifications.
- Abbott’s August 3, 2026 letter requires project-level disclosures covering tax incentives, power use and generation plans, water use and cooling operations, community impacts, and facility ownership and control; projects that fail the audit must be denied grid connection.
- ERCOT said it will not issue the previously scheduled August 7, 2026 Batch Zero notifications and will seek a good cause exception at the August 20, 2026 PUCT open meeting; the article also cites Senate Bill 6 (signed June 2025) and notes Texas has over 474 GW of interconnection requests, about 90% tied to data centers.