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HB 2559 raises questions about Hood County's authority to halt Al data centers as state lawmakers push back on local moratorium efforts.

Residents once again packed the Hood County Commissioners Court meeting, raising environmental, water and land-use concerns over a proposed data center as officials debated their authority under state law.

County commissioners approved an agreement allowing the Sheriff’s Office to use artificial intelligence tools to analyze online data linked to child exploitation, as some raise concerns about oversight and transparency.

Residents in Hood County voiced their disdain for a proposal 2,600 acre data center with hope to function as soon as 2027.

A group of Democrats sent a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, arguing Grok, the AI chatbot on social media platform X, has been able to create sexualized images of children. Lawmakers last year criminalized the creation of child pornography with artificial intelligence.

With AI's rising popularity, Texas has seen tech companies invest millions into data centers. But experts warn the state is not capable of regulating the AI wave.

Texas will have more than 30 new laws on the books come New Year's Day, touching on everything from artificial intelligence regulation to property tax exemptions.

The suit accused RealPage of facilitating the sharing of pricing data that assisted landlords in fixing rent prices across the nation.

SMU DataArts has appealed the $50,000 funding loss on the grounds that their project aligns with one of the National Endowment of the Arts’ new stated priorities to “foster AI competency.”

May Mobility is already familiar to many in Arlington, offering driverless rideshare around UTA and downtown.

The tech giant said it has commissioned more than one million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test its specialized Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas — part of an investment the company said will produce up to half a trillion dollars of AI infrastructure in the next four years.

Another child was shown sexually explicit material by the app for years before their parents found out.