Senate Bill 6 would require companies seeking to develop power-hungry facilities to pay a fee of at least $100,000 to apply to connect to the power grid, so those not serious about building are weeded out.
Initially, the Energy Abundance Development Corp. data centers will run on natural gas produced in Texas, but the company plans to transition to 100 percent green hydrogen sourced from its hydrogen salt dome storage facility in the future.
The bond dollars would also go toward the construction of a new health sciences facility, major overhauls to residence halls, construction of a new welcome center and campus renewal and safety improvement projects.
Forty-six Texas agencies said allowing employees to work outside the office has made them more productive, while 40 others said productivity wasn’t affected either way. None reported a negative impact on worker output as a result of remote work.
Plano City Council approved spending $765,000 over two years to have temporary workers manually read the city’s roughly 88,000 water meters to properly bill water customers.
A city spokesperson said there is no indication of any actual or attempted misuse of personal information, but filings identify 17,751 people notified of the breach “out of an abundance of caution.”
The city of Frisco received a $437,000 grant from the Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority at the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles for the camera system.
Coming as the state’s coffers are brimming with more than $20 billion in unspent tax money, the requests lean heavily toward pay raises and new hires for state agencies dealing with high turnover and low pay.
Northside, North East, Judson, Alamo Heights, Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City, Southside, East Central and Edgewood independent school districts were among the Texas school systems that lost access.
Election pollbooks hung during the early voting period, causing the wrong ballots to be handed to some voters. The vendor, Election Systems & Software, appeared before commissioners to answer questions this week and said it could be a while before a fix can be certified.
Newly digitized archives date to the early 18th century and are publicly searchable. The $18 million preservation effort was supported by records fees.
Airport visitors will need to use the Metropolis mobile app, which will log parking lot entrances and exits. A contract was put in motion earlier this year.
The Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund is providing a grant of $4.12 million for the new wafer production facility, which is expected to create more than $41 million in capital investment and nearly triple the company’s annual wafer production.
Ina resource adequacy report ERCOT published earlier this month, the grid operator reported that some of the low risk of ordering an energy emergency alert, or controlled outages, has been influenced by the recent and forecasted addition of data centers that are planned to operate 24/7.
Jon Gary Herrera, whose current title is senior vice president of public engagement, will be the first Latino CEO for the agency, which was created in 1978.
