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At Google’s Midlothian data center on Nov. 14, Google executives joined Texas Governor Greg Abbott and other government leaders to announce the company’s $40 billion Texas investment. [Photo: Google]

Google Bets $40 Billion on Texas Buildout of U.S. AI Infrastructure

by | Nov 16, 2025
Google CEO Sundar Pichai was in North Texas on Friday to announce the tech giant’s largest investment in a single state. The multiyear plan will add three Texas data center campuses, increase energy supply to the state’s grid, and train 1,700 electricians as the AI economy scales.
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Flytrex Appoints Former Waze CEO and Google VP as Executive Chairman
by | Sep 10, 2025
The Israel-based drone food delivery company—which has been delivering restaurant meals by drone in North Texas since 2022—said Noam Bardin will help it evolve from proving its technology to building "a sustainable, profitable business that serves millions of customers."
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Flytrex To ‘Vastly Expand’ DFW Drone Deliveries After ‘Beyond Visual Line of Sight’ FAA Nod
by | Aug 13, 2025
Since it first began drone-delivering chicken wings in Granbury in 2022, Flytrex has expanded its services to Little Elm and Frisco via partnerships with restaurant brands and DoorDash. Now—after becoming just the fourth drone delivery company to snag FAA Beyond Visual Line of Sight approval—Flytrex drones will soon be buzzing all over DFW. Its big goal: reaching over 100 million across the U.S.
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Wing and DoorDash Partner on Drone Deliveries From 2 North Texas Malls
by | Dec 18, 2024
Launching at Brookfield Properties’ Stonebriar Centre in Frisco and Hulen Mall in Fort Worth, the service is said to be the first of its kind for shopping malls in the U.S., following a recent pilot program in Virginia.
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UP.Summit Recap: The Future of Mobility, from Flying Cars to ‘Ziplined’ Sandwiches to Aerial Wildland Firefighting

by | Oct 6, 2023
The three-day, invitation-only 2023 Up.Summit wrapped up today at the Perot family's Circle T Ranch in Westlake. Here are some of the flying cars, autonomous dump trucks, drone-show drones, and "neighborhood electric vehicles" showcased at the summit—which was attended by global CEOs, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and VCs seeking to get in on the ground floor of the future of mobility.
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Walmart Is Adding Wing Drone Deliveries to Two North Texas Superstores
by | Aug 24, 2023
Walmart will launch new drone delivery service at two area stores— including one the retailer calls its "most requested expansion area." With fast drones from Alphabet-owned Wing, Dallas shoppers could get their orders in about 30 minutes.
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Walmart Launches Drone Delivery From 11 Dallas-Area Stores
by | Dec 15, 2022
You may hear a buzz in the air soon within a mile of 11 Dallas-area Walmart stores, but it's not the sound of an early electric Santa sleigh. It's another sign that commercial drones are becoming more and more a part of our daily lives. The big-box giant has expanded its drone delivery partnership with DroneUp into Texas. For a $3.99 delivery fee, customers within a mile of each store can order packages and see them drop gently to their yard or driveway on the same day.
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Wing’s New Remote Operations Center Is Air Traffic Control for Its Drones
by | Dec 12, 2022
In April, Wing—a subsidiary of Alphabet and sister company of Google—began delivering products by drone to neighborhoods in Frisco and Little Elm from a "drone nest" in each city. The drones buzz with payloads from Walgreens, Blue Bell Creameries, Texas Health, and easyvet. Now Wing has opened its second U.S. remote operations center in a Coppell office building to oversee the drone operations, staffed by FAA-licensed "pilots in command."
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Hillwood Partners with Alphabet’s Wing to Launch First Commercial Drone Delivery Service in a Major U.S. Metro

Wing will operate a drone delivery facility in Dallas-Fort Worth at the Frisco Station development with a small number of flights starting this week. 
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Alphabet Startup and Walgreens Drone Delivery Service Takes Wing in Dallas-Fort Worth
by | Oct 20, 2021
Frisco and Little Elm are the first cities to get a new drone delivery service from Wing, a sister company of Google, and Walgreens. The partners will operate on-demand air deliveries that bring essential items straight to your door.
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