Texas policy actions

These Texas records are related instruments. None is recorded as superseding another. Together, the approval and permit directives are a temporary approval and permit pause pending an audit. This is not a permanent ban on existing facilities. The 3 August 2026 letter tells the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT to audit data centers advancing through ERCOT interconnection before any additional data centers are approved to move forward. It states no end date. ERCOT's 3 August 2026 market notice postponed Batch Zero classification of large loads past 7 August 2026. ERCOT's 20 August 2026 presentation says energization approvals are paused for data centers and virtual-currency mining facilities of 75 MW or greater until Batch Zero eligibility verification is complete. The 14 September 2026 board update says that pause continues until the verification and audit and the community-impact review are complete. Those materials give 10 December 2026 as a report-filing goal, not as a legal expiration. That energization pause does not, on ERCOT's description, apply to non-data-center large loads or to medium loads. The 21 September 2026 letter tells TCEQ to halt permits sought by data centers until ERCOT completes its review, and it says no other state agency should move regulatory approvals forward until the requested information is acquired. 19 October 2026 is a compliance-update date, not an expiration. The same letter says the governor will seek legislation to eliminate data-center financial incentives. That legislation is not recorded as enacted. The Comptroller was still describing the sales-tax exemption program on 22 September 2026. The Public Utility Commission's rule 16 TAC section 25.194, adopted on 18 September 2026 with an effective date of 8 October 2026, implements Senate Bill 6 for large loads generally; it is a separate instrument and does not end these pauses. ERCOT's 14 September 2026 request for information (M-B091426-01) sets a 12 October 2026 response date; that is a response deadline, not an expiration. TCEQ's 19 October 2026 letter says the agency has paused issuance of permits for infrastructure directly supporting data centers and is screening pending applications. The STEERS page marked modified on 22 October 2026 says that filing system is temporarily down for that review. Neither document ends the pause or lists individual permits. 19 October 2026 remains a compliance-update date, not an expiration.