Texas AI Gets Weird: AI Bartenders, Student Startups and a Data Center “Pee” Campaign

AI innovation in Texas is becoming more practical, but also more creative—and occasionally much stranger.In this episode of IntoTexas AI, Shannon Belew visits Muenster-based Weber Ranch and its AI mixologist, Tex, before heading to Texas A&M, where hundreds of student entrepreneurs are using AI to test and develop new business ideas. We also look at an encouraging A&M initiative helping rural middle-school students use AI, agricultural sensors and critical thinking to investigate challenges in their own communities.Then we turn to one of the year’s strangest AI marketing campaigns: Jason Kelce, Liquid Death and Garage Beer proposing that Americans send their pee to cool water-hungry data centers. The campaign is satire, but the concern behind it is real. Communities across Texas and the country are asking increasingly serious questions about how rapid data-center growth will affect local water supplies.From AI-powered cocktails to student entrepreneurship, rural education and pee-cooled computers, these stories show that innovation can emerge through experimentation, imagination—and a well-placed sense of humor.Subscribe to IntoTexas AI for fact-first coverage of how artificial intelligence is reshaping Texas businesses, communities and industries.#TexasAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIInnovation #TexasAM #DataCenters #StudentEntrepreneurs #AITechnology #TexasBusiness #JasonKelce #LiquidDeath #GarageBeer #AI #IntoTexasAI