Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
What to Know:
- A new Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) report says Texas could become the world’s largest data center market by about 2030, potentially overtaking Northern Virginia as growth accelerates in “frontier markets.”
- JLL estimates Texas could reach about 10–11 gigawatts of data center capacity in the next few years based on existing facilities plus projects under construction, putting it close to Virginia’s current scale.
- The build-out is colliding with grid and environmental concerns, as Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approvals and large private investments move forward while the Energy Reliability Council of Texas reports a surge in large-load interconnection requests tied to data centers and other major facilities.
The Best of Texas Awards, part of the Texas Digital Government Summit, honor public agencies working to improve the constituent experience.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality projects $10.9 million to be available for the New Technology Implementation Grant program.
The agency manages the Texas Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Plan as part of a national program and is administering about $407.8 million through 2026.
This regulating agency is mandated to update its website and create a more accessible, user-friendly experience; it has $5 million to do so.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s current website, which houses 4,000 webpages, 869 folders and 29,000 PDF files, saw 2.2 million unique visitors in fiscal year 2023.
TCEQ is seeking a cloud-based application that allows public water systems to submit lead service line information.
The department, which protects the state’s natural resources, has an estimated annual IT budget of $12.5 million.
The state’s environmental agency is seeking a records processing contractor who will image documents requested as public information.
The agency that monitors environmental impacts spent $980,530 in February, mostly on consulting and telecom services.
The monies will assist in deploying a Texas EV infrastructure to meet future drivers’ needs.
The monies will assist in deploying a Texas EV infrastructure to meet future drivers’ needs.
The agency regulating pollutants is seeking action for a multitude of records.
