Texas Writes the Rules While Google Writes the Check

Google is financing a $5 billion-plus Nexus Data Centers campus for Anthropic in Texas, with 7.7 gigawatts of expansion potential powered by dedicated on-site gas generation, while Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has simultaneously launched three Senate committee investigations into data center water use, electricity demand, and sales tax exemptions. The developers who show up to those interim hearings will help write the rules; the ones who don't will live by them.