Greg Abbott

August 15, 2026

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County Judge Philip Spenrath's NDA Hardens Opposition on Amazon's 3,000 Acres

August 14, 2026

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Carrying Costs Compound After Aug. 20 as ERCOT Audits for Months

August 12, 2026

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SpaceX's $16.8B Terafab Puts Gas and Batteries on the Critical Path

August 11, 2026

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Gov. Abbott's Audit Leaves Batch Zero With No Restart Date

August 10, 2026

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Trump Split With Gov. Abbott Just Compressed Every Operator's Audit Timeline

August 8, 2026

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Skybox, Digital Realty, Mara, Montera Sign Binding Pledges to Gov. Abbott

August 7, 2026

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Gov. Abbott Guardrails Win First QTS Commitment on Grid Upgrades

August 6, 2026

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Self-Supplied Sites Move Ahead While Grid Projects Wait

August 5, 2026

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One Keller Comment Filing Shows How the Statewide Audit Reaches Each Project

August 4, 2026

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Every Queued Project Must Now Prove Water and Generation, With No End Date Set

August 3, 2026

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Meta's El Paso Campus Hits 1 GW Without Buying a Single Server

August 1, 2026

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The Same $50K Fee That Screens Datacenters Now Applies to Chevron and Samsung

July 29, 2026

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AMD's 15-Year Lease Only Pays Off If West Texas Transmission Lands on Time

July 28, 2026

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Post Security Before the Study, or Watch Your 2027 Slot Go to a Buildable Project

July 26, 2026

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Sen. Huffman's January Bill Targets the Exemption That Built Fermi and Stargate

July 25, 2026

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Abbott Sets Five Site Standards, and East Texas Is the First Test

July 13, 2026

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The Permit Was Never the Hard Part. The Neighbors Are.

July 9, 2026

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89% of New Power Requests Are Datacenters. Abbott Wants Guardrails.

July 8, 2026

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Ratepayers Come Off the Hook. Developers Underwrite the Wires Themselves.

July 7, 2026

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The Permian Gets Texas's First 765 kV Backbone, and CREZ Wrote the Playbook

July 6, 2026

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The April Deadline Beats the Rulebook by Three Years

July 5, 2026

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Self-Supply Is Now the Floor for Political Viability in Texas

July 4, 2026

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Abbott Hardens His Terms. The 2027 Legislature Holds the Pen.

July 3, 2026

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Shared Interconnection Buys Speed. Disciplined Developers Already Underwrite the Curtailment.

July 1, 2026

Gov. Greg Abbott moved from promoting Texas as an AI "epicenter" to announcing that regulating the industry will be a priority in the 2027 legislative session.

June 30, 2026

Abbott shifted from calling Texas an "AI epicenter" to flagging data center regulation as a 2027 legislative priority, and he's proposed eliminating the state sales tax exemption.

June 29, 2026

Gov. Abbott named data center regulation a priority for the 2027 legislative session, even as Texas faces 248 planned projects atop 335 existing facilities and the state doesn't track them.

June 27, 2026

Governor Abbott has shifted from "epicenter of AI" framing to directing in June 2025 that infrastructure costs stop landing on ordinary ratepayers and recommending repeal of data-center tax exemptions.

June 26, 2026

Gov. Abbott directed ERCOT and the PUCT to protect residential ratepayers and signaled regulation as a 2027 legislative priority.

June 25, 2026

Gov. Abbott's June 10 directive sets the principle that large users fully fund the interconnection upgrades, substations, and grid reinforcement they trigger, with residential ratepayers shielded.

June 22, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott is pushing data center regulation in a state built on welcoming it, and the polling explains why: Grist reports 70 percent of Americans oppose local construction, including 63 percent of Republicans and 53 percent of conservative Republicans.

June 21, 2026

Governor Abbott's June 10 directive orders the PUCT and ERCOT to require AI datacenters to fund the transmission and interconnection capacity they consume, with an implementation memo due July 17 and residential transmission costs ordered down by end of July.

June 19, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott directed regulators to make data centers fund their own transmission rather than shift costs onto Houston, Dallas, or rural ratepayers.

June 18, 2026

Governor Abbott's June 10 letter asked PUCT chairman Thomas Gleeson and ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas to propose rules shielding residential customers from data center-driven bills.

June 17, 2026

Gov. Greg Abbott, who has championed data centers as an economic driver, told GOP convention delegates last week that incoming legislation would force data centers to "bring their own power, reuse their own water, and lower the cost of electricity for consumers and residents."

June 16, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott has handed the PUCT and ERCOT a regulatory reset with hard deadlines.

June 15, 2026

Governor Abbott has recommended measures on water, electrical demand, and tax incentives, and the House Natural Resources Committee convenes June 23 at the Capitol with public testimony open.

June 14, 2026

Governor Abbott directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT on Wednesday to submit recommendations by July 17 on data center water efficiency, ratepayer cost impacts, and community safeguards, with legislative proposals targeting the 2027 session.

June 13, 2026

Governor Abbott just rewrote the Texas datacenter playbook.

June 12, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott has put the Texas data center industry on notice.

June 11, 2026

Governor Abbott directed PUCT and ERCOT to deliver ratepayer-protection recommendations by July 17 and pledged 2027 legislation requiring data centers to fund their own electric infrastructure, mandate water-efficient cooling, and repeal sales tax exemptions.

June 2, 2026

House Speaker Dustin Burrows and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick have flagged data centers as a major legislative focus, and Governor Abbott's office said investments "cannot come before the needs and concerns of Texans."

May 25, 2026

Governor Abbott's $3 billion AI tax break commitment runs through these counties.

May 9, 2026

Abbott's support is durable. It is not armor.

April 23, 2026

The resolutions went to Governor Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick, Sen. Perry, Rep. Darby, the PUC, TCEQ, ERCOT, and the Texas Water Development Board.

April 22, 2026

Texas Rep. James Frank threatening to ask Gov. Abbott to halt the Three Way Road project in Archer County absent constituent engagement

April 7, 2026

Gov. Abbott's press secretary stated facilities "are required to bring their own power and to disconnect if Texans don't have what they need," and regulators require large data centers to register with ERCOT and the PUC, provide backup power, and help fund grid upgrades.

April 6, 2026

Meta spent $1.3 million on Texas primary elections in March, Elon Musk's trust fund gave $500,000 to a PAC backing state Senate candidates, and Gov. Greg Abbott holds a $105 million war chest fed partly by $1.6 million from tech executives last year.

March 25, 2026

Republican state Rep. Helen Kerwin has urged Gov. Abbott to pause rural data center construction.

March 19, 2026

Texas Rep. Helen Kerwin is calling on Governor Abbott to impose an immediate moratorium on large-scale rural datacenter development, citing water depletion and grid strain in communities near the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant.

March 18, 2026

State Rep. Helen Kerwin (R-District 58, North Texas) sent Gov. Abbott a March 12 letter urging an immediate pause on new large-scale rural datacenter projects until water and grid impacts are assessed.

March 11, 2026

The resolution, sent to Governor Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick, the PUCT, ERCOT, and the Texas Water Development Board, follows a public hearing that drew roughly 90 residents and reflects a pattern now visible across Hood County, Somervell County, and Jack County simultaneously.

February 25, 2026

Meanwhile, seven activists and roughly two dozen supporters rallied at the Capitol demanding Gov. Abbott call a special session, with Hood County residents and Rena Schroeder, a Republican Senate candidate in South Texas, framing data center expansion as a rural threat.

February 24, 2026

Rural residents bused into Austin Monday to demand Gov. Abbott convene a special session for a statewide moratorium or grant counties explicit siting authority.

February 22, 2026

Gov. Abbott