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Republican politician who has served as Governor of Texas since 2015, shaping state policy on energy, infrastructure, and economic development.
Heatmap counts at least $260 billion of data center investment canceled this year after local pushback, about half of it in the last three months. Governors in New York and Texas have paused new projects, so permitting delay is now a cost for AI buildouts.
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Bloomberg puts Texas data center shell and core at $11.3 million a megawatt, while Meta and BlackRock's $14 billion, 1 GW site works out to $14 million. BloombergNEF says the grid-connection halt Governor Greg Abbott called for could delay 49.8 GW and put up to $15 billion in costs and revenue at risk.
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At least 20 governor candidates have promised data center moratoriums, according to Multistate research cited by Wired. For teams counting on capacity that has not been built yet, where a site goes and who pays for its power are now campaign questions in several states.
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Texas's Business Court dismissed a Coinbase holder's suit over 2021-2023 conduct for lack of the written board demand Texas law requires. The dismissal was without prejudice, so the claims can return once a holder writes to the board and waits out the ordinary 90 days.
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Flock Safety plans to cut about 270 jobs, roughly 18% of its workforce, Reuters reported. Two days earlier Henrico County, Virginia, said it would end its contract over protection of data shared across Flock's nationwide network.
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Microsoft says ecological landscaping, already used at more than 20 data center sites, is now standard on every new US project. Public Citizen's Texas director says no amount of it makes a gas plant a good neighbor, and points to Microsoft's 20-year Chevron power deal.
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Chevron says Gov. Greg Abbott's moratorium on new data center permits could delay the investment decision on its nearly 3-gigawatt Kilby project until 2027. For one of the largest new US data center projects, the date now depends mainly on a state permit.
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QTS, NextEra and Siemens Energy formed a Texas coalition to win local consent for data centres after nearly $200 billion of US projects were blocked in six months. For their investors, a county commission's vote now sits beside financing and equipment as something a project timeline depends on.
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Ten-year Treasury yields near 5.17%, the highest since 2007, raise the cost of the $4.1 trillion in AI debt JPMorgan expects through 2030. Oracle fell 7% this week as CoreWeave rose almost 8%, a split that follows Oracle's campus news more than rate exposure.
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Washington's first state-level cyber pilot swaps rulemaking for donated vendor labor, which leaves an unanswered question about who pays to fix what the red teams find at Texas water utilities after month six.
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The build is now the largest driver of U.S. private investment growth, and 71% of Americans polled want none of it nearby, which makes entitlement risk rather than capital the thing infrastructure investors have to price.
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Trump is telling communities that refusing data centers will leave them poor, while Abbott and Pillen have paused approvals in their own states. That gap is where the schedule risk on a project now sits.
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Pew surveyed 10,548 adults from July 20 to Aug 9 and found the move against data centers in rural, urban and suburban areas alike and among both parties, while Texas issued a statewide moratorium in August.
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A real estate agent in Bells found survey markers near his 26 acres last December and went looking for whoever owned the plan. A Republican strategist now calls data centers a sleeper issue of the cycle.
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The September 21 directive tells Texas environmental regulators to stop all data center permits until two state audits finish. A dedicated gas plant behind the meter still needs an air permit from the same agency.
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The five-year deal reported by Bloomberg takes Jane Street's rented GPU commitments to about $19 billion across two vendors, at a firm that already runs its own GPUs in Texas and owns equity in one landlord.
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The same survey puts overall opposition at 61 percent among 1,503 likely voters, and New York's pause on large data-centre permits has not moved, so the people siting capacity are negotiating local politics in both parties.
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The president told reporters he likes Flock's license plate readers, a month after Josh Hawley opened a formal investigation into the company's data practices and Greg Abbott halted Texas state funding for the cameras.
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Two Republican states moved against automated license plate readers inside three weeks, one revoking permits it had already granted and one cutting off state money, while Flock Safety's cancellation count keeps climbing.
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Healey's order makes a signed community benefits agreement the price of entry to state permitting for anything above 25 megawatts, while the cost of missing the 100% clean-power test stays unpriced until MassDEP writes that rule by December 31.
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