Nvidia Corp. is backing a $50bn lease on a Texas data centre that will use its chips, deploying its balance sheet to support the growth of the AI computing market, according to the Financial Times. CE…
Energy Vault has broken ground on an AI infrastructure campus in Snyder, Texas, deploying Crusoe Spark modular data centers with an initial capacity of up to 25 MW of IT load. The NYSE-listed energy s…
Wistron opened its D1 AI smart facility in Fort Worth, Texas, marking the first U.S. production and assembly site for the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip. The $700 million, 324,000-square…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in June 2026 recommended eliminating the state's sales tax exemption for data centers, a policy that had attracted billions in AI infrastructure investment, citing a projected $…
Meta acquired roughly 1,039 acres in Northeast El Paso, Texas, for approximately $8.5 million to build a massive AI data center campus designed to scale up to 1 GW of capacity, with total projected in…
Meta and BlackRock are raising more than $12 billion in bonds through a joint venture called Project Sopaipilla Holdings to finance a 1-gigawatt Meta data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with JPMorga…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined Wistron to open a $700 million AI server manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, that will produce tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip bo…
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 …
The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA), effective Jan. 1, 2026, bans the development or deployment of AI that intentionally manipulates behavior to cause harm, engages in unlawful discrimina…
Wistron Corporation celebrated the grand opening of its D1 AI smart facility in Fort Worth, Texas, where the first NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip was built and mass-produced in the Unite…
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…
States can buffer their economies against national shocks like trade uncertainty, inflation, and AI disruption by adopting policies that increase economic freedom, according to the Fraser Institute's …
Protesters across the US rallied Saturday against AI data centers in a nationwide demonstration organized by Humans First, a conservative nonprofit founded by Amy Kremer. The group planned over 100 de…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Executive Order No. 62 on July 14, enacting a one-year moratorium on discretionary environmental permitting for new data centers with a power demand of 50 megawat…
California's economy grew at a 3.7% annual pace in the first quarter of 2026, ranking No. 2 among U.S. states for growth, its highest ranking since the fourth quarter of 2013, according to U.S. Bureau…
U.S. President Donald Trump criticized New York's one-year pause on major new data center projects, arguing in a July 15 Truth Social post that it risked pushing AI investment to states like Alabama, …
78 AI-law developments occurred across federal, state, and global jurisdictions for the week of July 13–19, 2026, including Colorado's law mandating therapists' real-time intervention during client-AI…
Texas's Responsible AI Governance Act (HB 149, 2025) took effect, prohibiting AI-driven behavioral manipulation, discrimination, and synthetic media, enforced by the Texas Attorney General with a 60-d…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted New York's new one-year pause on hyperscale data center permits, calling data centers 'money machines' and 'cash cows' that generate jobs and tax revenue. T…