data centers
San Antonio Council Votes 9-2 to Require Case-by-Case Approval for Every New Data Center, Rejecting By-Right Option
San Antonio City Council approved an ordinance requiring a Specific Use Authorization for every new data center in eligible commercial and industrial zones,...
CenterPoint Sits on Nearly $900MM in Data Center Deposits as Texas Audit Freezes 14 GW of Houston Load
More than two months after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered an audit of large-load grid requests, CenterPoint Energy is holding nearly $900 million in...
AI Supply Chain Drives Houston Industrial Leasing as Data Center Suppliers Sign 2.1 Million SQFT
Energy and technology manufacturers racing to supply the data center boom signed several of Houston's largest industrial leases in the third quarter of...
Trepp Analysts Split on Austin Apartment Bottom as Sun Belt Debt Stress Outpaces West
Two of Trepp's top analysts disagreed on whether Austin's battered apartment market has hit bottom, even as the firm's data showed Sun Belt...
Wells Fargo Warns Southern Apartment Vacancy Weighs on Texas as Data Centers and Megaprojects Advance
Wells Fargo's September economic outlook flags elevated apartment vacancy across the South and a higher floor under interest rates as the main drags...
Drones in the Walls, Robots in the Warehouses: AI Reshapes DFW Real Estate
A Goldman Sachs Global Institute essay argues the physical world is being rebuilt for machines, and Dallas-Fort Worth is already living the example...
UCLA Warns of Debt Risk as Texas Hits Pause on Its Data-Center Boom
A September 2026 UCLA Economic Letter warns that the heavily leveraged financing behind the AI data-center boom could threaten the wider economy, an...
Dallas Vaults to No. 2 in U.S. Exit Value as Outsized Buyouts Push 1H 2026 Haul to $55.9B
Dallas-Fort Worth generated $55.9 billion in expansion-stage company exits during the first six months of 2026, more than five times its full-year 2025...
CenterPoint Lands $50MM Federal Grant for $176.7MM Houston Grid Upgrade at King Substation
CenterPoint Energy landed a $50 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to install fast-acting voltage-control equipment at its King Substation in northeastern Harris...
Texas Lands 96,993 MW of Planned Data Centers, More Than a Quarter of the Entire U.S. Pipeline
Texas has emerged as the undisputed center of the national data-center buildout, with a post-2026 pipeline of 363 planned facilities that dwarfs California...
Texas Building Operations Generate $61.3B and Support 391,000 Jobs Across Six Markets, BOMA Study Finds
A new economic-impact study from BOMA International sizes Texas's building-operations economy, finding that Houston and Dallas rank among the nation's largest markets and...
Texas Cedes Battery Storage Crown to Arizona as Record 20.2 GWh Quarter Redraws the Land Map
Texas added 3.8 gigawatt-hours of battery storage in the second quarter and ceded the national lead to Arizona, even as a shrinking ERCOT...
