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Spencer Cox is the Governor of Utah, not Texas, and therefore has no direct role in Texas datacenter infrastructure, energy, or policy.
July 7, 2026
The Permian Gets Texas's First 765 kV Backbone, and CREZ Wrote the PlaybookThe out-of-state signal is louder: Kevin O'Leary's Stratos project in Utah shrank from 40,000 acres to just over 20,000 after Governor Cox signed a May 29 executive order requiring state evaluation, and QTS walked from its $30 billion Virginia Digital Gateway after courts invalidated the rezonings on procedural grounds.
June 1, 2026
Tax Abatements Lose the Room. Power, Water, and Cost Causation Take Over.In Utah, Governor Cox's Friday executive order imposes stricter state oversight on future data centers, naming Great Salt Lake protection explicitly.
May 28, 2026
Helios Hits 1.6 GW on CREZ Lines Built for Wind a Decade AgoUtah Governor Cox publicly killed the Stratos gas-only plan after 4,000 protest letters and 6,000 signatures, telling the developer future phases "should be nuclear, and they should be geothermal, and solar."
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