- AI companies, including Meta, Google, OpenAI, and Oracle, are seeing high valuations driven by significant funding for AI buildouts.
- OpenAI, Google, Oracle, Meta, and others have agreed to comply with data center rules established by Greg Abbott.
CleanSpark proposes a data center in Austin County, and both CleanSpark and Google comply with standards established by Greg Abbott.
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Updated Aug 15
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What happened
CleanSpark proposes a data center in Austin County, and both CleanSpark and Google comply with standards established by Greg Abbott.
Who's involved
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The entities involved
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CleanSpark
American Bitcoin mining company
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Google
American multinational technology company, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
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Greg Abbott
Governor of Texas since 2015
Related events
- Greg Abbott announced a moratorium on data centers, while Austin city council managed local affairs, and Abbott proposed opening utilities to market competition.
- Google is involved in shaping new data center laws and underwriting events in Tom Green County, Texas.
- Ken Paxton investigates data centers in Texas while Greg Abbott governs and sets policy.
- CleanSpark, a company with a data center campus in Texas, is currently facing a gubernatorial audit directive regarding its operations in the state.
- Governor Abbott pushed new guidelines for data centers while supporting Republican legislative goals in Texas.