AI Industrial Flywheel (⚙️🤖🔥)Texas Turns Data-Center Permits Into a Grid-Audit Gate
On September 21, 2026, Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to halt permits sought by data centers until ERCOT completes its audit. The order broadens Texas’s data-center slowdown from grid connections into environmental and water approvals, making AI infrastructure growth conditional on state findings about reliabilit…