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KXAN published an interactive tracker of roughly 600 projects operating or planned across Texas, with locations and status. Reporting on AI buildout usually stops at aggregate capex figures, so a site-level map is a rare primary artifact for anyone modeling regional power and land constraints. Hit the HN front page September 4. KXAN
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Governor Abbott directed the PUC and ERCOT on August 3 to halt approvals until each project passes an audit disclosing tax incentives received, power draw, water consumption, and community-impact mitigation (Texas Tribune). ERCOT will postpone its in-progress "batch zero" tran...
In a Punchbowl News interview released August 7, Trump criticized the Republican governor's industry-wide pause on new Texas data center approvals: "I think it's a mistake... because there are other communities that want it," and "for Texas to say no to data centers is a mista...
Reuters reports the mobilization on Saturday July 18, coordinated by HumansFirst, a group co-founded by a former Tea Party leader. Texas hosted 18 events, Georgia 11, California 8, with Pennsylvania, Florida and Indiana at 7 each. A June Reuters/Ipsos poll found only a third o...
Willison's September 1 note gives a transferable MCP design lesson: rows come back as an array of objects rather than an array of arrays, because weaker models lose track of which index maps to which column (simonwillison.net). Costs bandwidth, buys reliability across the mode...
The August 27 ToS change prohibits "original content written with or which facilitates the use of LLMs or other generative AI technologies" across source code, assets, tickets and emails, effective for new projects with no retroactive penalty (Sourcehut). The stated reasons ar...
The drop follows NVIDIA licensing Groq's inference technology and hiring founder Jonathan Ross along with much of the senior team. Groq is now positioning as a data center operator rather than a chip designer, planning to exceed 200MW of inference capacity by 2027. TechCrunch...
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