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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 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 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 2020
Source: ERCOTERCOT’s 2020 Resource Adequacy page says its resource adequacy materials include interconnection-status information and that its capacity charts now show project capacity ERCOT has approved for grid synchronization, with operational reports also including capacity approved for grid synchronization but not commercial operations. ERCOT also notes the page contains EORM materials authorized by the Public Utility Commission of Texas as part of Project Number 42302, “Review of the Reliability Standard in the ERCOT Region.”
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Recent Texas data center news
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Google-linked Housebound Group files for two data center projects in Haskell, Texas
Google-linked affiliate Housebound Group LLC has filed two new data center projects in Haskell, Texas, with TDLR.
- Journey 1A and Journey 2A are both planned for 1362 Red Creek Road, Haskell and each is budgeted at $400 million.
- Journey 1A began construction on April 1, 2026 and is expected to finish by late August 2027; Journey 2A began on June 23, 2026 and is targeted for late October completion. The site is described as roughly 300 acres, and the Haskell County tax abatement for the Journey site was approved in June 2025.
- The article also references related Google-linked development in Haskell County, including the Thelma campus and another campus developed by Ascendant Site Solutions LLC; Google said in November 2025 it would invest $40 billion in Texas through 2027.
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Ares invests in Sabey Data Centers
Sabey Corporation and National Real Estate Advisors have announced that Ares Management Corporation’s Secondaries funds have made a minority equity investment in Sabey Data Center Properties (SDCP).
- No transaction terms were disclosed; Ares’ capital is intended to support future expansion across Sabey’s existing campuses and new opportunities in key data center markets.
- SDCP operates 251MW across about 4 million sq ft and could triple capacity by 2036 on existing landholdings, according to its owners; the announcement also notes Sabey sites in Quincy, Seattle, East Wenatchee, New York City, Austin, Umatilla, Indianapolis, and Ashburn.
- The announcement quotes Tim Mirick (SDCP president) and Jeffrey Kanne (National Real Estate Advisors president and CEO); Evercore and Citizens Capital Markets & Advisory advised SDCP on the transaction.
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Nexus DC files to develop second data center outside Dallas, Texas
Nexus Data Centers has filed to develop a second planned data center building in Hubbard, Texas.
- The company filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to develop Nexus Apex HB2 at 357 HCR 3372, Hubbard, Hill County.
- The project is planned to span 491,380 sq ft (45,650 sqm) and is budgeted at $400 million; construction is set from June 2026 to January 2028.
- The article also references a previously filed first building, Nexus - Apex DFW HB1, with the same size and $400 million budget, running from January 2026 to October 2027.
- Background details include reported 600MW natural gas-powered campus plans in Hubbard, Google as reported financial backer, and Anthropic as the stated end user.
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AEP Texas, DOE close $3.26B loan agreement to lower costs, improve grid
AEP Texas has announced a loan agreement of up to $3.26 billion with the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Dominance to lower electricity costs and modernize the Texas grid.
- The loan is expected to fund a portfolio of approximately 100 projects to enhance grid reliability, including rebuilding or reconductoring existing transmission lines and building new transmission lines spanning about 2,800 miles.
- The DOE said the projects are intended to help meet growing demand from data centers, advanced manufacturing, and oil and natural gas development in the Permian Basin; AEP Texas said it has letters of agreement supporting up to 41 GW of potential new load additions through 2030.
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Patented: Topgolf’s Newest Award and More Inventions Across North Texas
Dallas Invents has reported a weekly roundup of patents granted in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, highlighting Topgolf’s new patent among other local assignees and inventors.
- Topgolf International, Inc. received U.S. Patent No. 12649095 for a Galton configuration in golf ball receiving apparatus and systems that uses RFID tags and an antenna reader to identify golf balls while avoiding jams.
- The article is a news roundup/commentary on patent activity, not a first-time corporate announcement; it also lists other grants to entities including Texas Instruments, Toyota, Samsung, Bank of America, Citibank, USAA, Halliburton, and Akamai.
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AWS files for $1.2bn data center campus outside Houston, Texas
Amazon Web Services has filed plans for a new four-building data center campus, Project Eagle, in Boling, Wharton County, outside Houston.
- Through Amazon Data Services, AWS filed four separate TDLR applications for identical buildings of 189,060 sq ft each, with $300 million listed for each building.
- Construction is set to start on August 1, 2026; the first three buildings are scheduled for completion in early January 2027, and the fourth in August 2027. The campus is planned for roughly 2,700 acres near FM 1301 and FM 442 at 240, 244, and 258 Eaglewood Road.
- The article also notes AWS’s broader Texas footprint, including a 1,300-acre land acquisition near Cedar Creek in Bastrop County in May 2026, plus prior filings in San Antonio, DeSoto, and near Vistra’s Comanche nuclear plant outside Fort Worth.
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GridMarket, Deployable Energy partner to deploy microreactors for data centers
GridMarket and Deployable Energy have announced a partnership to support advanced nuclear power development for the data center sector.
- The companies are targeting deployment of 500MW per year from 2030 to 2035 and say the partnership could support more than 3GW of capacity through 2035.
- GridMarket will connect its customer pipeline and deployment-ready sites to Deployable Energy’s Unity Nuclear Battery, a 1MWe gas-cooled microreactor designed to fit inside a 20 ft container and be deployed in arrays.
- Deployable Energy was selected for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad and says its test reactor reached criticality earlier this month; the company is based in Houston, Texas. The article also notes that the parties will pursue customer engagements and an initial pilot project, with no further pilot details provided.
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Galaxy Digital completes first phase of pivoting cryptomine to AI hosting
Galaxy Digital has announced completion of the first phase of its Helios campus pivot toward AI and HPC use, delivering power to CoreWeave.
- Phase I at the Helios data center campus in West Texas is complete and has delivered about 200MW gross power and 133MW critical IT load to CoreWeave; Phase II greenfield development is underway with 260MW planned.
- CoreWeave has committed to 526MW critical IT load (800MW gross power) across three phases under 15-year leases; Galaxy says the campus total approved power capacity has expanded to 1.63GW, with potential to reach 3.6GW. Galaxy acquired the campus in late 2022 from Argo Blockchain for about $65 million and later announced the pivot to AI use.
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Aalo Atomics’ Test Reactor Reaches Criticality at INL, Fourth DOE-Authorized Advanced Reactor by July 4
Aalo Atomics has announced that its Aalo-X Critical Test Reactor (CTR), dubbed Project First Light, reached criticality at Idaho National Laboratory on July 4, making it the fourth DOE-authorized advanced reactor to achieve criticality in the recent federal reactor testing push.
- DOE said Aalo’s test reactor successfully completed a zero-power fueled criticality demonstration at INL under the Reactor Pilot Program; Aalo told POWER the CTR reached criticality at 12:20 a.m. MT on July 4.
- Aalo CEO Matt Loszak said criticality paves the way for the Aalo Pod to power commercial data centers after NRC authorization; Aalo said the 10 MWe Aalo-X design supports construction and licensing in 2027 and operations/safety demonstrations in 2028.
- The article also says Aalo has begun work on Project Ascension, a second reactor on the INL campus, with excavation and earthwork completed and first concrete being prepared; Aalo expects to finish it by end-2026 and make commercial-scale electricity in 2027.
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Anthropic signs $19bn, 20-year lease for Kentucky data center with TeraWulf
TeraWulf has announced a long-term lease with Anthropic for its Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, and separately said it is selling its 50.1% ownership interest in the Abernathy Joint Venture.
- Anthropic lease: the agreement runs for 20 years and is expected to generate about $19 billion in revenue for TeraWulf; the campus is planned for up to 401MW of IT capacity, with initial capacity in the second half of 2027 and full operations by early 2028.
- Abernathy JV sale: TeraWulf said it is divesting its entire 50.1% ownership in the JV with Fluidstack in Abernathy, Texas; the JV was formed in October 2025 for a 168MW data center on a 120-acre campus, and TeraWulf said the deal helps it realize value from its $450m investment.