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A mysterious kidney disease has been reported in Texas, raising concerns about its origin and potential public health impact.

A map illustrating the locations of operating and planned data centers in Texas, providing a visual overview of the state's data center landscape.

4000 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs arrived in Texas for the Horizon TACC cluster, forming the largest academic supercomputer, with plans to train open AI models.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on Flock AI surveillance cameras amid bipartisan backlash over privacy concerns and misuse incidents.

A $1 auto insurance fee in Texas, originally meant to fight catalytic converter theft, was diverted to fund thousands of Flock surveillance cameras, prompting the governor to pause state funding after a journalistic investigation.

The article discusses the emergence of a new American auto industry led by the West Coast and Texas, contrasting with China's growing car exports and Detroit's focus on gas trucks.

Border wall construction in Texas threatens to destroy ancient archaeological sites on private lands, potentially erasing thousands of years of history before full study can occur.

Texas, once seen as favorable for AI data centers, is now imposing audits on new facilities to evaluate their impact on electricity, water, and bills.

Cards Against Humanity is crowdfunding a monument on land near SpaceX's Starbase facility to annoy Elon Musk, part of a long-running feud over alleged trespassing and property damage.

OpenAI sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott outlining its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure development in Texas, aiming to collaborate with state and local leaders, utilities, and communities.

Amazon is reportedly building a massive 7.65-gigawatt gas power plant in Texas to power an AI data center, which would become the largest pollution source in the U.S., contradicting its net-zero climate pledge.

SpaceX and Tesla announced a joint AI chip manufacturing plant called Terafab in Grimes, Texas, expected to become the world's largest building, producing chips for edge computing, inference, robotics, and space data centers.

Trump criticizes Texas Governor Greg Abbott's pause on data center approvals, calling it a mistake, while Abbott defends the move citing power and water usage concerns amid surging electricity demand.

Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate reader cameras are proliferating across Texas, prompting a backlash from privacy advocates and proposed federal legislation to require warrants for data access. The article highlights the growing tension between law enforcement use and civil liberties concerns.

Elon Musk announces that Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth, describing it as stunningly beautiful.

Tesla announced that its Terafab chip manufacturing facility will be built in Grimes County, Texas, aiming to produce over 1 terawatt of compute per year to meet the chip demands of Tesla and SpaceX.

Texas Governor Abbott halts new data center grid connections amid surging power demand, citing community impacts and straining ERCOT's plans, while behind-the-meter gas generation remains an unregulated alternative.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott halts new data center projects and orders audits by PUCT and ERCOT, citing a massive surge in grid connection requests that could overwhelm the state's power supply.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered a comprehensive audit of data center proposals before they can connect to the state's energy grid, aiming to maintain grid stability amid surging power requests from data centers.

Wistron opened a $700 million advanced manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas to produce NVIDIA GB300 and Vera Rubin superchips, creating over 500 jobs and strengthening U.S. AI infrastructure.