Greg Abbott

Record prices put both industries at risk and raise costs for every Texas family.

Texas will NOT tolerate threats of violence against our Capitol.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is currently considering approximately 474 gigawatts of requests to connect to the Texas grid.

Simply put, Texans must come first.

If we don’t invest in it, China will be the global leader in this. And so to me, it’s not whether. This is a must.

If we’re going to be the leader in technology, which we are, if we are going to be the leader in AI, which we presently are, it’s just going to require trillions of dollars of investments.

They're going to be required to be used responsibly if they're used at all.

To the extent any funding comes from Texas agencies, those agencies are clarifying that those funds cannot be used for Flock cameras.

To the extent that cities get any funding for those cameras, most of it comes from the federal government.

Project Watershed 250 puts federal, state, and private-sector cyber defenses behind our utilities at no cost.

They basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them

Prohibit [tech companies] from building AI data centers in rural Texas neighborhoods

Ensure that data centers’ interconnections will result in reduced residential electrical bills

I'll put Minneapolis at the top of the list for future bus drop offs if we ever have a President like Joe Biden again.

Minn. is the literal definition of a sanctuary state because you refuse to assist in enforcing immigration laws.

You guys are such bad lawyers. You showed up unprepared, uninformed & unpersuasive. You don't know the law & it showed.

Abbott also accused developers of not working "in collaboration with the state," or "with local governments," adding they "basically dug their own grave for the problem that's been caused for them, and that's why they got the backlash they…

The public backlash is understandable, Abbott said, because data centers "pop up in places that nobody ever heard of before, until they started the construction."

They will not be building a wall or a fence in Big Bend National Park.

I established guidelines & guardrails to protect Texas communities.

My directive has halted up to 1,800 data center projects.

Airports can no more offer Muslim-only bathroom spaces than they can maintain white-only bathrooms.

It is clear that these government-owned airports have used — and continue to use — funds charged to the public to finance, maintain, advertise, and operate Muslim-only spaces on property that should be open and accessible to all citizens.

These ablution stations single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion.