Greg Abbott

April 7, 2026

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Medina County Told Microsoft No. Here's the Playbook It Used.

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

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When Military Strikes Take Down Cloud Regions, Location Becomes Strategy

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

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Grimes County Has No Land-Use Plan. That's Every Developer's Problem Now.

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

March 19, 2026

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Communities Aren't Anti-Datacenter. They're Anti-Surprise.

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

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50 GW of AI Capacity Is About to Face Generator-Level Oversight

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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