Ground moving at the Texas sites we watch

What this page is180 rows held · newest sealed read 2026-08-24

• We watch 15 sites in Texas. We hold 180 dated pictures of them, sealed across 12 weekly reads from 9 Jun 2026 to 24 Aug 2026.
• 163 of those 180 pictures are clear enough to compare. The others are held too, and named on the page about pictures we could not use.
• What those 15 sites are filed under, by count: Google 4, Stargate 3, Coreweave 2, Meta 2, Cipher 1, Fermi 1.
• Bare ground moved five points or more 34 times across 10 of the 15 sites we watch in Texas. The widest single move was at Stargate Shackelford, 37.6 points more bare between 3 Aug 2026 and 10 Aug 2026.
• Nothing in Texas moved five points or more between our last two sealed sets, 17 Aug 2026 and 24 Aug 2026. We say that rather than dress an unchanged reading up as a change.

Real rows out of our sealed copies

These are rows we read out of dated pictures we keep ourselves. The pictures themselves stay public: every row names its scene, so you can go and pull the same picture we read. What is not out there is this — the same fixed list, read the same way every week, with the weeks the sky took off us named rather than skipped.

What this page cannot tell you

• This is pictures, not permits. Nothing on this page is a filing, an approval, an announcement or a contract. It is what a satellite picture of the same square of ground showed on two different days. We publish no megawatt figure and no percent-built figure anywhere in this feed, because neither of those things is in a picture, and putting one next to a satellite reading would be inventing it.
• Every picture covers the same fixed square, 65,536 pixels of it, centred on the site. That square takes in whatever else sits around the site — fields, roads, a car park, a neighbour's land. A move on this page is a move across the whole square. It is not a measurement inside a boundary, because we do not have the boundary.
• Bare ground can fall because grass and crops grew back over the summer, and it can rise because a field beside the site was harvested or ploughed. We do not separate weather and farming from work on the site, and we will not pretend to. On a site surrounded by farmland, read a summer fall in bare ground as the season before you read it as anything else.
• A cloudy picture is never compared. We only put two pictures side by side when at least half of each one is readable and no more than two fifths of it is cloud. 537 of the 671 pictures we hold clear that bar. The rest are kept and named on the page about pictures we could not use, not quietly dropped.
• Five percentage points is our line and we chose it, so here is the arithmetic behind it. We can compare 416 pairs of pictures. 316 of them move by less than five points and 100 move by five or more. Below five points a reading is inside the week-to-week wobble of this measure, so we do not call it a change.
• The day we sealed a picture is not the day the picture was taken. A satellite passes when it passes and the sky has to be clear, so a set sealed on one Monday can carry a picture taken up to 14 days earlier. Both dates are on every row above, and we never present the sealed date as the date the ground looked like that. In 5 of the 100 moves we publish, the later set's picture was in fact taken no later than the earlier set's, because a set carries the newest CLEAR picture rather than the newest one. Read the picture dates, not the sealed dates, when you check a move.
• We read this list about once a week and the newest set we hold was sealed on 24 Aug 2026. We do not promise you next week's pictures on this page. If a week goes by without a sealed set, this page starts saying so in its own words at the top, and it will keep saying so until we read the list again.
• This page covers the 15 sites we watch in Texas and nothing else. The watched list was fixed before we started reading and we have not added to it, so a site in Texas that is not named above is one we do not hold a single picture of. Email operations@ustechautomations.com and we will say so straight.

More from this feed

• Up one level: Datacenter ground changesThe whole feed, its price, and how the file arrives.
• What is and is not in this feedEvery source we read for it, how often, and the ones we refuse to collect.