HOUSTON — The Republican governor of Texas. Greg Abbott has been cracking down on data centers for months, but less than a year ago its appointees and staff were actively trying to bring projects to the state.
On December 16, 2025, two days before Texas announced sweeping changes aimed at speeding up network access to data centers, top Abbott officials held a closed-door meeting with representatives of the state’s largest technology and transmission companies, according to documents obtained by POLITICO.
The documents show that representatives from Google, OpenAI, Meta, Amazon Web Services and Nvidia were “confirmed” to meet with Abbott’s team, joined by Texas’ top electricity regulator and grid manager to discuss building the state’s power grid. Still in the room, according to the archives: officials with the four state representatives main electricity transmission companies —Oncor Electric, CenterPoint Energy, AEP Texas and Texas-New Mexico Power.
A person at the meeting, who was granted anonymity to speak freely about what happened, said the message from Abbott The office has been clear: we want data centers to come to Texas, and we want to work with industry to remove barriers to make it happen.
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