Public Utility Commission of Texas
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...
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...
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 Clears 424 Miles of Transmission Across Private Ranchland, Setting Up a Land-Rights Reckoning
The Public Utility Commission of Texas cleared Oncor to build the state's first 765-kilovolt transmission lines across roughly 424 miles of largely private...
Texas Freezes 474 GW Data Center Queue Amid $31.6 Trillion Global Buildout
Gov. Greg Abbott's order for a statewide audit of data center projects has stalled roughly 474 gigawatts of interconnection requests inside the ERCOT...
PowerHouse, Big Watt Advance Off-Grid 665-Acre Project Mustang Data Center Toward September Vote in Taylor
Project Mustang, a 665-acre data center campus powered by its own 477-megawatt natural gas plant instead of the ERCOT grid, is advancing through...
Abbott Freezes New Texas Data Centers, Orders Audit as Grid Requests Hit 474 Gigawatts
In a move that puts Texas at the center of the national fight over AI infrastructure, the governor has directed the Public Utility...
VanTrust Pivots 200 Acres of Its 1,400-Acre Mustang Ridge Development Toward a Data Center Near Austin
VanTrust Real Estate is redirecting a large slice of its long-planned Mustang Ridge development southeast of Austin toward a data center after earlier...
BlackRock Takes 80% Stake in Meta’s $12.3B El Paso Data Center as Off-Balance-Sheet AI Financing Spreads
The joint venture that handed BlackRock majority ownership of Meta's Northeast El Paso campus mirrors a Louisiana financing blueprint and has revived questions...
