Statewide data center action in Texas
Texas has an active data center moratorium on this tracker. Status is derived, not stored — a pause with a documented end date flips to Expired on its own — and the source is right next to the claim.
Status today
Governor directed ERCOT and PUC to freeze all data center interconnection progress pending a comprehensive audit. ERCOT halted 'Batch Zero' large-load study and suspended Aug 7 classification notifications. Queue holds ~474 GW (~90%% data centers) — 5x Texas's record peak demand. Audit scope: tax incentives, water, community impacts, on-site generation, ownership. Excludes projects with on-site generation and areas outside ERCOT. PUCT open meeting Aug 20. No end date — treat as a hold on the queue, not a construction ban
Source
read 2026-08-13
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
What to do next
- Questions to ask at the hearing — force specific answers onto the record.
- Estimate the impact — electricity, water, and rate pressure for any facility size in Texas.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Texas briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Elsewhere in Texas
- Hill County — Rescinded
- San Marcos — Enacted
- Hays County — Enactedexpires 2026-12-31
- Fort Worth — Proposed
- Lavon — Enactedexpires 2026-11-05
- San Antonio — Proposed
- Denton — Proposed
As of August 2026 · changes weekly — re-check before citing
Illustrative rather than exhaustive — dozens of localities churn weekly, and this tracks the ones we have read a source for. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to the ordinance, the enacting body's own page, or a datable report of the vote, and were read on that date. Rows marked *unverified* came from bulk compilation and have not been checked against a primary source — the locality, the year, and the status may all be off. Verify one of those with the town clerk before citing it as precedent. **Expiry is derived, not asserted.** A row with a documented end date flips to *Expired* on its own once that date passes. A time-limited moratorium whose start date was never documented keeps showing as enacted — that is a known gap, not a claim that it is still in force. Moratoriums are also routinely extended, so an expiry date is the earliest it could have ended, not proof that it did.
Part of the U.S. data center moratorium tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0.