Texas Put AI Data Centers on Notice. Meta and Digital Realty Already Chose Their Side

Texas is no longer treating every proposed data center as an automatic addition to the grid. On August 3, Governor Greg Abbott ordered an audit of projects moving through ERCOT's interconnection process, which contained more than 474 gigawatts of requests, over five times the state's record peak demand. ERCOT began issuing verification requests on September 9. Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) and Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) have already publicly committed to Abbott's standards. The investor question is whether tighter rules become a barrier or a moat.Texas Put AI Data Centers on Notice. Meta and Digital Realty Already Chose Their Side For illustration purposes only.