Texas Energy Heads Into the 2027 Session State Rep. Rafael Anchía on data centers, transmission, winter reliability and why most Texas bills never reach the governor, ahead of the 2027 session.
Data Centers Are Coming. Should You Fight Them Or Cash In? (with Professor Michael Webber) A Kentucky family turned down $26 million rather than let their 200-year-old farm become an AI data center. Texas Governor Greg Abbott says data center companies “dug their own grave.” And Bill Gates, the ultimate tech optimist, now says he wishes AI would slow down. What is AI actually costing us? Energy expert Professor Michael Webber (UT Austin, former Chief Science and Technology Officer at global energy giant ENGIE, author of Power Trip) breaks down what AI is really doing to your power bill, why tech companies are betting on nuclear and what restarting Three Mile Island means. Plus: billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller admits AI wrote his Wall Street Journal op-ed, and asks why that should bother anyone.
A Conversation with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison She was the first woman Texas sent to the United States Senate, and she later represented America at the NATO table. Today, she is helping shape the next generation of energy leaders. On this episode of TXOGA Talks, host TXOGA President Todd Staples sits down with Senator and Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison to discuss the Kay Bailey Hutchison Energy Center at The University of Texas at Austin, what NATO taught her about the importance of energy security, and exciting details about the KBH Energy Center’s 2026 Energy Symposium in Austin.
Behind Two Cacti With Shawn Cumberland With Shawn Cumberland, Managing Partner, Energy Transition, Encap Investments and Brian Korgel, Director, Energy Institute, UT Austin.
How Texas Decides Which Data Centers to Connect ERCOT now has roughly 445 gigawatts of large loads asking to connect to the Texas grid, a figure so large that Joshua Rhodes says it might as well be infinite, because the system cannot physically build for all of it.
Process is Killing Texas Data Center Projects The Energy Capital Podcast with Joshua Rhodes, Research Scientist at UT Austin
Austin Energy Enters the Next Phase of Decarbonization The Energy Capital Podcast with Joshua Rhodes, Research Scientist at UT Austin
SPECIAL REPORT: Texas Feels the Iran Oil Shock with Michael Webber Even with more domestic energy production, Texas is still exposed to global oil shocks, higher fuel costs, and infrastructure limits triggered by the war in Iran.
Build Fast or Fall Behind with Michael Webber For a long time, the basic story in U.S. energy was stability. Demand growth had flattened, efficiency was doing more work than most people realized, and expansion was steady.
Professor Fred Beach | S3E3 | Science, Y’all! Professor Fred Beach is the Director of the Earth and Energy Resources graduate program within the Jackson School of Geosciences. Hear how taking things apart and putting them back together as a child matured into a lifelong curiosity and passion for science. Dr. Beach discusses his childhood growing up on a farm, his first career serving in the Navy, and his second career in academia. Tune in to hear all this and more!
It’s Going to Happen First in Texas with Nat Bullard (Part 2) We talk a lot about the grid of the future. The truth is, that future is already showing up in Texas.