A day after Gov. Greg Abbott told TCEQ to halt permits for data centers, a $430 million Colovore data center was registered for Fort Worth’s Denton County side. Here is what the pause covers, what the state filing means and the dates to watch.
Denton council holds an Oct. 13 hearing on code changes that would end by-right data centers, triple the residential buffer to 300 feet, ban evaporative cooling and require grid approvals before a permit reaches an agenda.
DALLAS, Five Dallas City Council members asked in an Aug. 11, 2026 memorandum for a public hearing path to rewrite how the city regulates hyperscale data centers, which today are commonly slotted as “communications exchange facilities” allowed by right in many nonresidential zones under Dallas Development Code Section 51A-4.212(4). Councilmember Chad West’s filing, joined by … Read more
AUSTIN / DALLAS-FORT WORTH , Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened a statewide investigation on Sept. 24, 2026, into hundreds of data center developments that have not answered the Texas Water Development Board’s water-use survey, and the Office of the Attorney General’s county list expressly includes Dallas and Tarrant. The probe is about reporting compliance, … Read more
COLLIN COUNTY , Oncor is pushing a multi-year package of electric reliability upgrades across fast-growing Collin County, with construction in and around Princeton that the utility said would begin the week of Aug. 24, 2026, plus related work in McKinney, Celina, and other communities named on its Collin County service improvements page. The utility frames … Read more
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed what state leaders are calling the most comprehensive data center laws in the nation, a package meant to give communities more control over water, electricity, and land use as large computing campuses expand across California. National and state lawmakers celebrated the Sept. 22, 2026, signatures. They highlight … Read more
Ending by-right approvals for Prince William data centers means future projects need a special-use permit and a public hearing path. PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. – The Prince William Board of County Supervisors on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, voted 8-0 to approve a zoning text amendment that ends by-right data center development countywide, according to WTOP’s … Read more
By Mike Joe WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2026. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act on Wednesday, a bill that would permanently outlaw developing or deploying artificial superintelligence, pause the most advanced AI work until federal safety rules exist, and create a cabinet-level Department of Artificial Intelligence. The … Read more