Companies
Southern Company operates significant electricity generation and transmission infrastructure across the Southeast, including natural gas and coal facilities that serve data center regions, though it does not have major direct operations in Texas.
July 25, 2026
Abbott Sets Five Site Standards, and East Texas Is the First TestNearly 200 utilities and data center companies have signed the broader version, including American Electric Power, NextEra, Duke, Southern Co., Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle.
April 15, 2026
Build Your Own Power Plant or Lose Your Place in LineDuke Energy leads at $103 billion, followed by NextEra at $94 billion and Southern Company at $81 billion.
March 19, 2026
Communities Aren't Anti-Datacenter. They're Anti-Surprise.A structural conflict amplifies the risk: Southern Company holds co-ownership stakes in proposed gas infrastructure, including the SSE4 methane pipeline, creating incentive to overestimate demand across multiple revenue streams while ratepayers absorb the cost.
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TCEQ
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Meta
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Greg Abbott
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