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July 9, 2026

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

Abbott's June letter to PUCT's Thomas Gleeson and ERCOT's Pablo Vegas already instructed both agencies to make sure data center interconnections don't shift infrastructure costs onto ratepayers.

July 6, 2026

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The April Deadline Beats the Rulebook by Three Years

He's asked ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas and PUCT Chair Thomas Gleeson for recommendations by July 17.

July 5, 2026

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

Abbott's June 10 letter to ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas laid out the framework: self-funded generation, cost offsets, closed-loop water, and residential setbacks.

July 4, 2026

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

His press office tied the language to his June 10 directive to PUCT Chairman Thomas Gleeson and ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas ordering that data centers not shift costs onto residential ratepayers.

June 18, 2026

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225 Interconnection Requests, One Filter: ERCOT Sorts Real From Paper

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 16, 2026

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Developers Foot 100% of the Wire. Ratepayers Get the Discount.

In a letter to PUC Chairman Thomas Gleeson and ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas, Abbott directed datacenters to fund 100% of their own electric infrastructure costs and structured interconnections so residential bills decline.

June 13, 2026

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Hyperscalers Wire $200M Upfront as ERCOT's Queue Hits 438 GW

Pablo Vegas called it "an unprecedented change in the pace of growth."

June 11, 2026

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Abbott Names July 17. The 2027 Rulebook Starts Getting Written Now.

Pablo Vegas called the scale unprecedented in ERCOT history.

May 14, 2026

Translation from Pablo Vegas: projects move slower than developers pitch.

April 18, 2026

President and CEO Pablo Vegas acknowledging the forecast runs "higher than expected future load growth."

April 14, 2026

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas told the House Committee on State Affairs that incoming data center projects plan to draw 410,000 additional megawatts from the grid, roughly seven times the new demand ERCOT managed just two years ago.

April 13, 2026

CEO Pablo Vegas told the House Committee on State Affairs that 410,000 megawatts of data center demand sit in the interconnection queue, 87% of all incoming requests, roughly seven times the growth ERCOT managed just two years ago.

April 12, 2026

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas told legislators a transmission capacity study is underway to map available infrastructure and allocate annual interconnection capacity over a five-year horizon.

April 10, 2026

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas told the House Committee on State Affairs that over 130,000 megawatts of new projects entered the interconnection queue in the last month and a half, with data centers comprising roughly 87% of queue growth.

April 9, 2026

ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas is responding with a carrot-and-stick framework offering faster interconnection to data centers that supply their own generation or agree to curtail on demand.