17 stories tagged texas, newest first.
100 points by jlundberg | 140 comments
A Berget AI blog post comparing per-request CO2 emissions of AI inference in Texas versus Sweden; the page returned a 502 Bad Gateway error.
28 points by hn_acker | 10 comments
Texas Tribune article on a HARC report warning that Texas's data center boom could reverse decades of air quality gains, especially if powered by natural gas.
26 points by gmays | 33 comments
An a16z American Dynamism article explaining why Texas's grid operator paused new data center interconnections amid a surge of large-load requests.
194 points by 01-_- | 29 comments
Ars Technica article on a Texas city demanding $2 million for public records about police use of Flock license plate cameras amid growing backlash.
60 points by bonefishgrill | 49 comments
Texas Tribune article reporting a federal judge ordered Texas to air condition all prisons by 2029, ruling extreme heat is cruel and unusual punishment; Texas will appeal.
55 points by hn_acker | 64 comments
Votebeat Texas article reporting that a Texas DPS error left an unknown number of voter registration applications unprocessed ahead of the Oct. 5 deadline.
30 points by Danhale93 | 10 comments
Dallas Morning News article reporting that Trinidad, Texas, about 70 miles southeast of Dallas, was ordered to close its police department for failing to benefit the public.
370 points by DeepLogin | 257 comments
Texas Tribune article reporting that a $1 fee added to Texas car insurance policies to fight catalytic converter theft funded thousands of Flock surveillance cameras.
380 points by reaperducer | 116 comments
Podcast page for Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep, a sleep-oriented show hosted by Zoe Kurland and Christopher Dyer.
442 points by maxloh | 231 comments
Tom's Hardware news article about a Texas city selling land a farmer donated for a park, for $10M to a data center developer, with $30M in expected taxes.
621 points by abawany | 269 comments
Reclaim The Net article about a Texas woman arrested over a Facebook post criticizing her town's water quality; page showed a Cloudflare verification screen.
423 points by atombender | 206 comments
autoNotion article reporting that Tesla's Texas lithium refinery discharges about 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater per day.
743 points by matthest | 900 comments
Pew article analyzing how Austin added 120,000 homes from 2015 to 2024 amid policy reforms, and how that construction surge lowered rents.
330 points by nobody9999 | 93 comments
Texas Observer investigation into Texas police agencies spending millions on phone-tracking software and refusing to disclose how they use it.
603 points by pseudolus | 425 comments
CBS News Texas article reporting the SEC's approval of the Texas Stock Exchange, the first new fully integrated U.S. exchange in decades.
342 points by perihelions | 207 comments
Texas Tribune article reporting that Meta will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit over using facial recognition on users' biometric data without consent.
903 points by fnordpiglet | 1066 comments
AP News article reporting that SpaceX's giant Starship rocket exploded minutes after its launch from Texas.