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Abbott Orders ERCOT Audits, Blocks Noncompliant Datacenters
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- Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Water Development Board to penalize data centers that fail water-use reporting.
- Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT to audit datacenters seeking grid interconnection.
- Datacenters that fail the ERCOT audit will be denied permission to connect to Texas’s power grid.
- In 2025 Texas datacenters used about 25 billion gallons of water, potentially rising to 161 billion by 2030.