Paul Cobler

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Texas’ multibillion-dollar estimate for what it will lose on sales tax breaks for data centers is growing, but the Comptroller’s Office warned lawmakers on Monday they have little information about

ODESSA — A growing chorus of Texas lawmakers is calling on the state's electric grid managers and utility regulators to halt an expansive and increasingly controversial project to build transmission lines that would cut through several thousand acres of private property to deliver electricity to oil companies in the West Texas oil fields.

ODESSA — A growing chorus of Texas lawmakers is calling on the state's electric grid managers and utility regulators to halt an expansive and increasingly controversial project to build transmission

On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state's power grid.

Amid growing public backlash to the rapid buildout of data centers across Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced a moratorium on the approval of data centers until regulatory agencies

Amid growing public backlash to the rapid buildout of data centers across Texas, Gov.

The governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.

A growing chorus of Texas lawmakers is calling on the state's electric grid managers and utility regulators to halt an expansive and increasingly

Amid growing public backlash to the rapid buildout of data centers across Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced a moratorium on the approval of data centers until regulatory agencies can audit p