October 15, 2026 Austin
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for the Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project immediately east of the city that could reach one gigawatt of capacity. The joint venture announced the...
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October 15, 2026 Austin
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to approve a development agreement with Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre data center and power project east of the city that could reach one gigawatt of capacity. In a joint press release, the partners...
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October 15, 2026 Austin
Taylor City Council voted 5-0 on Oct. 8 to annex and approve a development agreement for Taylor Technology Campus, a 664-acre hyperscale project east of Taylor that Big Watt Digital and PowerHouse Data Centers say could support up to one gigawatt. The partners announced the approval in a Business...
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October 11, 2026 Austin
The first data center building at the 2,842-acre Cedar Creek campus being developed by Pacifico Energy and BlackChamber Group is on file with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The October 7 filing, reported by Community Impact, outlines a $366 million building at the Bastrop...
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September 26, 2026 Tesla
AI chip startup DensityAI has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding at a $10 billion valuation. According to The Information, Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to lead the round, while DensityAI has reportedly secured a purchase agreement with AWS based on performance requirements....
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August 08, 2026 Tesla
Tesla reported lower-than-expected profits and rising capital expenditure as it expands into the data center energy market. The company posted quarterly revenue of $28.2 billion after delivering around 480,000 vehicles, while operating costs rose 47 percent to $4.35 billion. "The energy business...
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June 22, 2026 Tesla
Tesla appears poised to enter the containerized data center market, according to a new trademark filing. Reported by Electrek and others, the company has submitted an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a modular data center product called “Megapod,” described as a hardware...
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February 13, 2025 Austin
What's causing the growth in data centers in Austin, TX? The answer is AI. Data centers and large AI consumers, like the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s supercomputers, require enormous amounts of energy and water, raising environmental concerns. Our research reveals there are 386 data centers...
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April 29, 2024 Austin
A hydrogen demonstration facility has launched in Austin, Texas and will help provide power to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) data center via a fuel cell. The project – located at the University of Texas (UT) J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin – is a collaboration between GTI...
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February 03, 2023 Austin
In Texas, a proposal for four data centers has been submitted on the location of a long-proposed private airport. The application for the 'Bastrop Project' data center was submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) this month. The application is for a new construction of...
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