Willie Nelson, 93, urged Americans to fight data centers invading rural Texas farmland, citing light pollution and water theft. The country music legend warned against losing control of food and water…
Willie Nelson, the 93-year-old country icon and Farm Aid co-founder, published an open letter Tuesday opposing AI data centers proposed near his hometown of Abbott, Texas, calling them 'loud, water th…
Country music legend Willie Nelson, 93, has publicly opposed the construction of AI data centers near his tiny Texas hometown of Abbott, calling them 'water-thieving' and 'invading' rural land in a so…
Texas regulators are tightening rules for AI data centers after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) to make developers pay more of their grid connection costs and pr…
Democratic Texas gubernatorial nominee Gina Hinojosa is seizing on backlash against AI data centers in Republican strongholds, calling the industry 'the wild west' and warning of threats to rural life…
President Donald Trump secured a voluntary pledge from governors and electricity companies on Thursday to shield U.S. consumers from higher utility bills stemming from data centers, expanding on an in…
Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott faces backlash from his rural conservative base over his support for massive AI data centers, which residents fear will raise electricity bills, deplete water res…
Texas Republicans are turning on Gov. Greg Abbott over the rapid expansion of AI data centers, which are fueling anger across rural Texas over soaring electricity bills, shrinking water supplies, and …
Taiwan's Wistron Corporation opened its $700 million D1 AI smart facility in Fort Worth, Texas on July 21, already mass-producing Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchips in the first U.S. prod…
Saronic, an autonomous shipbuilding company, announced its $3.2 billion Port Alpha project will be built in Brownsville, Texas, instead of Solano County, California, creating 10,000 permanent jobs and…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has imposed a first-of-its-kind data center moratorium, using executive power to halt AI infrastructure expansion while keeping legislative negotiations open, a move tha…
Texas faces an unprecedented data center boom, with ERCOT receiving 519 requests to connect large electricity users in the last two years—compared to 24 the year before—totaling an estimated 438,595 m…
A US heatwave is straining the power grid and water supplies, intensifying concerns over the rapid expansion of AI data centers that consume vast amounts of electricity and water. Lawmakers across the…
Governor Greg Abbott awarded a $24.2 million Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund grant to FormFactor Inc. for a new probe card manufacturing facility in Farmers Branch, Texas. The company will invest …
Utah State Senate President J. Stuart Adams lost his primary election after backing a data center project opposed by 60% of voters, signaling growing bipartisan backlash against AI data centers drivin…
The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved ERCOT's first 'Batch Zero' process to group large electricity connection requests of 75 MW or more into a single study, as ERCOT tracks over 438,000 MW …
Two small-town Texas mayors, Jim Jaska of Ross and Charles Wilson of Lacy Lakeview, are divided over a proposed $10 billion AI data center by Infrakey, as Lacy Lakeview moves to annex the site and col…