Texas

Latest developments

Electric air taxis get the green light for test flights in Texas The Verge · 1 week ago · 12 Tesla Begins Offering Rides in a Car Without a Steering Wheel The New York Times · 2 weeks ago · 31

Nscale closes $3B debt package to power AI infrastructure buildout across the US Tech Funding News · 2 weeks ago · 28

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem TechCrunch · 2 weeks ago · 4

Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras The Verge · 2 weeks ago · 24 How much of a problem is AI’s water use? Ars Technica · 3 weeks ago · 10 Greg Abbott turned from data center 'epicenter' booster to skeptic—and Trump is calling it an economic 'mistake' Fortune · 2 Everything’s bigger in Texas: Musk’s planned $16.8 billion chip factory is five times bigger than the world’s current largest building Fortune · 48

September 2026

◆ Tesla began public passenger rides with its Cybercab robotaxi in Austin, Texas, and the US federal government initiated an investigation over whether the vehicles meet federal safety standards Deployment

◆ Nscale closes a $3B investment-grade debt package and pursues additional up to $3.5B in pre-IPO financing to expand AI compute infrastructure in the US Funding

• 10 Sep Electric air taxis get the green light for test flights in Texas
• 4 Sep Tesla Begins Offering Rides in a Car Without a Steering Wheel
• 1 Sep Nscale closes $3B debt package to power AI infrastructure buildout across the US

August 2026

◆ AI-driven data center expansion faces growing public and regulatory scrutiny over water use and environmental impacts, alongside experiments with offshore ocean-based data center designs Other

◆ U.S. political and public backlash against AI data center buildouts intensified, prompting calls to address voter concerns and some local pauses or moratorium proposals Policy change

◆ Amazon invests in and backs an on-site natural gas power plant for a planned data center in West Texas, which would emit tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide annually Deployment

◆ Texas Governor Abbott Orders Audits of Data Centers Before Grid Connection Policy change

• 30 Aug Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem
• 30 Aug Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras
• 27 Aug How much of a problem is AI’s water use?
• 24 Aug Greg Abbott turned from data center 'epicenter' booster to skeptic—and Trump is calling it an economic 'mistake'
• 10 Aug Everything’s bigger in Texas: Musk’s planned $16.8 billion chip factory is five times bigger than the world’s current largest building
• 9 Aug Amazon is building a new AI data center in Texas that could become the country’s largest source of carbon emissions
• 8 Aug An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country
• 4 Aug Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
• 4 Aug Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits
• 4 Aug Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid

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People

• Greg Abbott employed by this jurisdiction · 2 sources

Regulation

• Regulated by Tesla · 1 source
• ERCOT regulated by this jurisdiction · 1 source

Products & technology

• Deploys Flock AI · 1 source
• Advanced Air Mobility and Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Integration Pilot Program deploys this jurisdiction · 1 source
• Nscale deploys this jurisdiction · 1 source