How Big Tech and Abbott Made Texas the ‘Epicenter’ of Data Centers
Records show Abbott aides told Big Tech Texas welcomed data centers and would help clear obstacles as grid requests surged to 470 GW, officials said.
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Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers
Ask Texas NAACP president Gary Bledsoe what it's been like to see data center developers descend upon Austin and its surrounding suburbs and he can rattle off project after project facing opposition from locals. There's the fight in Taylor over plans to build a data center at a site that's supposed to be a park. […]
MAGA governor’s closed-door Big Tech meeting comes back to haunt him
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has spent months positioning himself as a hard-liner on data centers, but newly obtained records and interviews show that less than a year ago, his top aides quietly reassured Big Tech that the Lone Star State wanted their projects and would help clear the way.On Dec. 16, 2025, Abbott’s senior staff held a closed-door “transmission roundtable,” Politico reported. Google, OpenAI, Meta, Amazon Web Services and Nvidia were li…
Greg Abbott Made Texas the ‘Epicenter’ of Data Centers
“Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has been cracking down on data centers for months, but less than a year ago his appointees and staffers were actively trying to bring projects to the state,” Politico reports. “On Dec. 16, 2025, two days before Texas announced sweeping changes to expedite grid access to data centers, Abbott’s top […]
Know why Gina Hinojosa questions Texas data centers and what's behind the 17 permits suspended before the elections
Abbott breaks order, promises
As early voting begins, Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a new administrative strategy: lying. Throughout 2026, Abbott has continuously backpedaled on his support for data centers by calling for regulations and even halting data center-related permits. These initiatives would all be steps in the right direction, had the governor actually supported them behind closed doors. However, a new report revealed certain data center projects are still receivin…
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