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Democratic Texas House member from Austin running against Gov. Greg Abbott, focused on tech and data-center policy.
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The governor who called Texas the epicenter of AI development less than a year ago is running on regulation, reduced incentives, rural limits and household bill protections. That platform still reprices a site, even without a statute behind it.
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Ken Paxton and James Talarico disagree about tax breaks and local control, but they ask for the same thing on water. That moves cooling design out of the campaign column and into the siting spec.
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The Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority routed at least $30 million in insurance-fee grants to local police before the order, and the governor's office says most of the remaining camera money is federal.
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Hochul's Siena lead has halved since June while her attorney general sits on 18 points. The New York office actually litigating prediction markets is the harder of the two for the industry to unseat.
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More than 15 candidates have signed a five-point pledge on data centers and AI. It stops short of a moratorium, which a Republican governor in Texas has already imposed.
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Abbott's pause stops roughly 1,800 grid applications seeking nearly 474 GW. The load-bearing number is not the gigawatts but the under-10 percent of operators who answered the PUC's data request.
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Trump told operators the jobs and taxes are enormous. The Senate Republicans' own campaign arm told candidates the issue is an anchor around a sitting senator's neck.
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Republicans who cheered the AI buildout are running on "guardrails" and tax-break repeal. For anyone underwriting capex against state abatements, the discount rate just moved.
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