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Race Rock Breaks Ground on $100MM Brookshire Expansion, Growing Campus to 750,000 SQFT for Transmission and Substation Steel
Houston-based Race Rock has started work on a $100 million manufacturing expansion beside its existing fabrication shop in Brookshire, a bet that Texas...
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...
Taylor Annexes Big Watt, PowerHouse’s 664-Acre Data Center Campus in 5-0 Vote, Eyeing First Power in 2028
Taylor City Council members voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to annex the 664-acre Taylor Technology Campus under a 20-year development agreement, giving Big...
AI Hardware and Grid-Equipment Makers Lease 2.3MM SQFT Across Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston as a New Class of Industrial Tenant
Celestica, Spike Electric Controls and Modular Power Solutions signed roughly 2.3 million square feet of third-quarter leases in Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, part...
NextEra, Related and Lewis Energy Tapped for $22.3B, 6.47-GW Project Star Gas Plant in Encinal to Power 5-GW Data Center Campus
Washington and Seoul have picked NextEra Energy Resources and Related Companies, working with Lewis Energy Group, to build Project Star, a $22.3 billion...
Taylor Lures Back Big Watt, PowerHouse 664-Acre Data Center With $28.2MM Benefits Pact Ahead of Oct. 8 Vote
A month after Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers withdrew their annexation request and signaled they would build under looser county rules,...
B2U Energizes Second San Antonio Battery Project, Betting Old EV Packs Can Undercut New Storage by 40%
B2U Storage Solutions has brought a 28-megawatt-hour battery installation built entirely from used electric-vehicle packs online near San Antonio, its second project in...
Gillespie County and Ampyr Reach Agreed Injunction Freezing 1,100-Acre Marshall Springs Solar and Battery Project Until 2027 Trial
Gillespie County and Ampyr Energy USA have agreed to a court-ordered freeze on nearly all construction at the roughly 1,100-acre Marshall Springs solar...
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...
Colovore Files $430MM, 157,000 SQFT Liquid-Cooled Data Center at Fort Worth’s AllianceTexas as Abbott Freezes State Approvals
Santa Clara, California-based Colovore has registered a $430 million, 156,500-square-foot liquid-cooled data center on Heritage Parkway inside AllianceTexas, lining up a December 2026...
Judges Back 366 MW Gas Plant for Meta’s El Paso Data Center, but Only if Ratepayers Are Held Harmless
A State Office of Administrative Hearings panel has told Texas regulators to approve El Paso Electric's McCloud gas-fired plant for Meta's 1-gigawatt campus...
Nation’s School Solar Could Power All of Austin, but Texas Campuses Lag
A new national census finds U.S. K-12 schools now generate enough solar power to run every household in Austin, yet Texas's own campuses...
