I penned a column on the enormous electricity demand created by cryptocurrency miners. Texas is an attractive place for ...

With Texas headed into another summer of record-breaking heat forecasts, state lawmakers took steps to better coordinate ...

A South Texas coal mine and coal-fired power plant will host a new geothermal energy storage facility as part of a local electric utility’s energy transition. Sage Geosystems, a Houston-based ...

Texas is now home to 10 of 34 large Bitcoin mines. During cold spells or heat waves, Texans are commonly called on to conserve power. For example, in August 2023, the state’s grid operator ...

Among lawmakers’ chief grievances were the paucity of jobs generated by bitcoin mines in Texas, as well as their climbing power usage. According to testimony from ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas ...

If signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott, large data centers would pay more for grid connections and could be forced to curtail ...

In the old ranchlands of South Texas, dormant uranium mines are coming back online. A collection of new ones hope to start production soon, extracting radioactive fuel from the region’s shallow ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 15. -- The traditions of the lost Spanish gold mines of Texas possess a fascination to the hunter after fortune. Some of these traditions are not mere fairy tales ...

As state and federal leaders push for a nuclear frontier, Texas' uranium supply continues discussions of the state's role in the matter. Energy demands push Texas toward nuclear Texas lawmakers ...

The way that Texas state law is written ... Chow: You can basically think of bitcoin mines as enormous computer server farms with thousands of computers at each location. They need fans to ...

Texas is now home to 10 of 34 large Bitcoin mines. During cold spells or heat waves, Texans are commonly called on to conserve power. For example, in August 2023, the state’s grid operator ...