Center, Texas — Abbott slaps halt on Texas data center permits

Governor Abbott’s decision to halt new data center permits while the state audits its electrical grid is a quiet bombshell for East Texas. For a town like Center, which has been eyeing the potential of industrial-scale development along the Highway 96 corridor, this moratorium hits the pause button on a specific kind of growth, but it hardly dims the town’s broader appeal

Source: GNews

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Updated September 23, 2026.

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