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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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Data centers need power now. Natural gas is filling the gap
Bloomberg is reporting that rapid AI and data center growth is driving developers to build private natural gas power plants to avoid long grid connection delays.
- Ninety-nine proposed plants tracked by BloombergNEF could emit about 318 million metric tons of CO2 annually at industry-standard rates, or roughly 20% of current U.S. power-sector emissions.
- Many projects are concentrated in Texas; the story says some developers are considering solar power and battery storage, but natural gas remains attractive for around-the-clock power.
- This article is commentary/reporting on a Bloomberg investigation and references large projects involving Amazon and Microsoft, rather than announcing a new project itself.
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Datum Deploys Its Open Network Cloud at DataBank to Connect Distributed AI Infrastructure
DataBank has announced that Datum has added network points of presence inside three DataBank facilities in Ashburn, Dallas, and Salt Lake City.
- The deployment places Datum’s open network cloud in interconnection-dense markets serving AI companies, hyperscalers, and enterprises.
- DataBank said the three markets were chosen because Ashburn is the largest interconnection hub in North America, Dallas is a growing central-U.S. exchange point, and Salt Lake City is close to US-West neocloud and public cloud regions.
- The announcement says the companies’ leadership relationship spans nearly 20 years; it also identifies Kevin Ooley as DataBank President and CFO and incoming CEO effective January 1, 2027.
- Datum says its infrastructure is accelerated by NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and is available in public cloud, dedicated cloud, BYOC, or open-source AGPLv3 models.
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Mesa Power Solutions Expands With $70 Million Wyoming Manufacturing Campus
Mesa Power Solutions has announced the opening of a new $70 million manufacturing and administrative campus in Evansville, Wyoming.
- The 220,000-square-foot facility at One Mesa Way consolidates 300 employees and expands capacity to produce natural gas power generation equipment for utilities, data centers, and other commercial and industrial customers.
- Mesa said that, combined with its San Antonio facility, it will be able to produce 3 GW to 4 GW annually; the company also expects the Wyoming investment to generate $200 million in economic impact for the state by 2030.
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Amazon Explores Grid Connection for 8,000-Acre AI Campus
Amazon has announced that it is exploring how its planned Texas AI campus power system could transition from behind-the-meter supply to front-of-the-meter grid service.
- Amazon said it is actively exploring a grid-connected transition for the campus and wants the energy infrastructure to eventually add supply for other customers; it did not disclose timing, ERCOT filing status, or requested grid capacity.
- The campus is tied to GW Ranch in Pecos County, Texas, with power to be supplied by Pacifico Energy; a TCEQ preliminary determination describes a 5,000 MW natural-gas plant with 35 simple-cycle turbines and notes the plant would serve an on-site AI data center rather than the local utility distribution system.
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Supply challenges boost value of existing data centers, enterprise deployments: JLL, Morningstar
JLL and Morningstar have released commentary and a midyear report saying North American data center capacity remains extremely constrained, with tenants leasing small fragmented blocks and many deals now contracting for 2028 deliveries.
- JLL’s 2026 North America Data Center Midyear report says North America roughly doubled net new demand in H1 2026 to 25GW, while vacancy stayed at 1% for a third straight year; stabilized assets are seeing stronger pricing and renewals.
- Morningstar said existing data centers are insulated by binding utility agreements, but still exposed to curtailment, demand response, and load-shedding risk; the article also cites Texas rules for loads over 75MW and U.S. Department of Energy action involving PJM Interconnection.
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Texas Governor Halts Data Center Grid Connections Pending Audit
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered state electric grid regulators to conduct a sweeping audit of every data center project seeking to connect to the Texas grid.
- Abbott’s order halts new interconnections until the review is complete and directs ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas to verify and audit all data center projects moving through the interconnection process.
- The order requires projects to disclose financial incentives, power source, water supply for cooling, community impact mitigation, and ownership / controlling-interest information; companies including Core Scientific, Vantage Data Centers, SB Energy, Meta, OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Oracle, Digital Realty, QTS Data Centers, Mara and Skybox Datacenters have said they will comply, while one unnamed developer and Diode ended projects.
- Abbott’s Aug. 3 order builds on a June 10 directive establishing statewide standards, and the story notes Texas has more than 1,800 projects seeking connections and 474 gigawatts of requests, about 90% from data centers.
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One Team, Two Rounds of Giving: Backpacks for Local Students
DataBank has announced that its employees, vendors, and customers completed a backpack drive for Bluffdale Elementary students and teachers, delivering 60 backpacks stocked with school supplies. - Over $1,250 was donated to purchase backpacks and supplies, and 27 employees helped pack them at the Salt Lake City data center.
- The backpacks included items such as a water bottle, notebook, ruler, crayons, pencil pouch, pencils, eraser, pencil sharpener, glue stick, and kid scissors; extra school supplies were also set aside for teachers.
- The article is a community relations / CSR recap, not a first-time product or infrastructure announcement, and it also references several past DataBank community activities at other data centers.
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Stream Data Centers Names Chief HR Officer as Apollo-Era Leadership Buildout Continues
Stream Data Centers has announced Nikki Kresse as its chief human resources officer as part of a broader leadership buildout following Apollo’s majority investment in August 2025.
- Kresse joins from Lifespace Communities, where she was chief experience and people officer; at Stream she will work on leadership, talent, culture, and scalable people systems.
- The article says this is at least the eighth executive appointment or promotion since Apollo took control; prior moves included Michael Lahoud becoming CEO in January, plus additions in development, sustainability, finance, and construction.
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As AI power demand soars, Musk turns to natural gas
The Wall Street Journal reports that SpaceX is increasingly relying on natural gas to power its expanding AI infrastructure.
- SpaceX is building massive AI data centers and a $16.8 billion chip-manufacturing facility in Texas, and is installing its own natural-gas turbines and power plants because grid connections can take years.
- The report says SpaceX’s data-center power capacity could rise from about 2 GW to 10 GW or even 15 GW by end-2027; it also says SpaceX and xAI have used gas turbines in Tennessee and Mississippi, and that SpaceX has secured cloud agreements with Google and Anthropic.
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Texas ‘AI Epicentre’ Pauses Data Center Connections as ERCOT Queue Tops 1,800 Projects and 474GW
Troutman Pepper Locke attorneys were quoted in an International Business Times article about Texas pausing data center grid connections amid growing oversight of ERCOT’s interconnection queue.
- The article says Texas has paused data center connections while the ERCOT queue has grown to more than 1,800 projects totaling 474 GW.
- Troutman Pepper Locke’s John K. Arnold, Brandon Lobb, and Rachael Beavers warned that power generation investors and tech firms should reassess capital deployment schedules and counterparty termination rights.
- This is a press-coverage piece referencing a prior Troutman Pepper Locke article; it is not itself a primary company announcement.