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September 26, 2026

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Google Puts BESS and LVDC on Record as the Gigawatt Campus Standard

September 25, 2026

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Oct. 14 TWDB Deadline Now Carries Class C Exposure in 18 Counties

September 23, 2026

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Vistra's 5% Stake and 207 MW Firm PPA Open New Era's 1.4 GW Midland Path

September 22, 2026

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Gov. Abbott Ties Noncompliance to Denial of Grid Connection

September 19, 2026

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PUCT Locks $50K/MW Study Bond Into 16 TAC 25.194, Effective Oct 8

September 17, 2026

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Documentary Survival Now Prices 266 GW Energization to Dec. 10

September 16, 2026

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DataBank CEO: Opposition Is Election-Tier as 24-Mo Texas Deals Still Ship

September 14, 2026

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Rowan's $4.2B Cleared Water and Power; One Zoning Vote Remains Sept. 17

September 12, 2026

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1,100 Acres Enter Site Work Before Cameron Names Load or Tenant

September 9, 2026

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Google's 25-Year Iowa Deal and 22-Year Fortum Contract Put Power Terms First

September 5, 2026

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North Richland Hills Seeks State-Funded Health Studies at Iron Horse

September 4, 2026

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Control No. 58481 Puts $50K/MW Floor Before ERCOT Models 1 GW

September 3, 2026

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Prosper Zoning Blocks White Rose's $580M on 1,600 Precinct Votes

September 2, 2026

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Fermi Cleared 6 GW Air in 205 Days; Denied ROW Still Cuts Jupiter's 2.45 GW

September 1, 2026

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Only 22 GW Clear Section 9.5 Under Senate Bill 6 Batch Zero

August 29, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott called industry backlash "deserved" for weak community delivery; Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the industry must "do a much better job working with the communities."

August 28, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott has not called a special session, so county-level rules and campaign-season pressure are writing the interim standard.

August 24, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott's large-load pause now has a hard calendar.

August 22, 2026

ERCOT will complete Governor Greg Abbott's data center and large-load audit by December 2026, with the Batch Zero Eligibility Verification Report and Community Impact Review due December 10 and findings at the PUCT's December 17 open meeting.

August 21, 2026

The sponsors frame islanded power as insulation from Governor Greg Abbott's large-load audit and from ratepayer scrutiny.

August 15, 2026

Mayor Mattie Parker cast the unanimous vote as alignment with Governor Greg Abbott's broader pause and stood up a Fort Worth Data Center and Infrastructure Commission, chaired by Dr. Mike Slattery of TCU's Institute for Environmental Studies, to stress-test noise, water, land-use fit, and zoning.

August 14, 2026

At least 43 companies, including Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, have endorsed Governor Greg Abbott's freeze since the Aug. 3 announcement; the PUCT set an emergency meeting for Friday, and scope, selection criteria, and how results re-enter permitting remain undefined.

August 12, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott's review gate now has a longer public commit list.

August 11, 2026

On August 10 it filed for good-cause exceptions in PUCT Control No. 58317, telling the Public Utility Commission of Texas it will blow past its own Batch Zero deadlines because Governor Greg Abbott's August 3 audit order requires months of verification before studies can restart.

August 10, 2026

Trump called Governor Greg Abbott's data center pause "a mistake" in a Friday interview with Punchbowl News, directly contradicting the Monday order and marking the first public split between two Republican heavyweights over Texas grid strategy.

August 8, 2026

Montera Infrastructure committed in writing to Governor Greg Abbott's data center standards.

August 7, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott's standards for data centers receive their first major compliance commitment.

August 6, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to conduct a full review and audit of all data center projects advancing through the interconnection process.

August 5, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to stop approving new data center grid connections until a full audit verifies each project's power draw, water use, tax incentives, ownership, and community impacts.

August 4, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to audit every datacenter project in the interconnection queue before any new grid connections advance, freezing forward movement on a queue that now holds more than 1,800 projects representing 474 GW.

August 3, 2026

The PUCT and ERCOT are petitioning the Legislature for expanded authority over data centers, following Governor Greg Abbott's directive to manage grid and infrastructure impact, according to a podcast discussion flagged by the Texas Energy and Power Newsletter.

August 1, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott directed the PUCT and ERCOT to require datacenters to fund their own electric infrastructure, bring their own power, and reuse their own water.

July 29, 2026

Galaxy says it negotiated most of these terms before Governor Greg Abbott's June directive to the PUCT and ERCOT, so the market was already moving toward developer-funded grid.

July 28, 2026

Following Gov. Greg Abbott's June 10 directive, the Public Utility Commission of Texas outlined a rulebook that requires large loads to pay transmission charges once capacity becomes available (operating or not), post financial security before entering planning studies, and cover direct interconnection costs.

July 26, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott reversed course in June 2026, backing repeal of the sales tax exemption that helped draw Google, OpenAI's Stargate, and the 5,800-acre Fermi campus near Pantex.

July 25, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott framed the exit as proof that Texas will host growth only from developers who put grid reliability, water efficiency, and community protection first.

July 13, 2026

Gov. Greg Abbott endorsed a rural Texas data center ban last month, calling on developers to "bring their own money, bring their own power, reuse their own water, and do it in a way that reduces the cost of electricity for residents."

July 9, 2026

Governor Abbott has hardened his position on AI data centers, now calling for a statewide ban on new facilities in rural neighborhoods, elimination of tax incentives, and hard requirements that developers self-supply power and water without raising residential electricity costs.

July 8, 2026

On June 10, the governor directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to require data centers to fund their own electric infrastructure and to "safeguard Texans, their property, and resources."

July 7, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott has flipped from data center recruiter to regulator, and the mechanics of every Texas project now hinge on his June 10 directive.

July 6, 2026

Governor Abbott has reversed his data center posture, and the clock is the real story.

July 5, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott called for a ban on new AI data centers in rural Texas neighborhoods and the elimination of the sector's sales tax incentives, speaking at a Bullard campaign stop this week.

July 4, 2026

Governor Greg Abbott has hardened his terms for AI data centers, calling at a Bullard campaign event for a ban on new construction in rural Texas neighborhoods, elimination of sector tax breaks, and a requirement that developers fund their own power, water, and infrastructure.

July 3, 2026

Campaigning in Bullard (population 5,500), Governor Abbott called for restricting new rural data centers, but his actual framework is three mandates: contribute power generation to ERCOT's grid, run closed-loop water systems, and lose access to certain state incentives.

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

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