{"id":23150,"date":"2026-08-10T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/meta-upholds-texas-governor-greg-abbotts-data-center-standards\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:24:25","slug":"meta-upholds-texas-governor-greg-abbotts-data-center-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/meta-upholds-texas-governor-greg-abbotts-data-center-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Upholds Texas Governor Greg Abbott\u2019s Data Center Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meta commends Texas Governor Greg Abbott\u2019s leadership and welcomes his continued efforts to protect ratepayers, conserve water, and promote responsible data center development in Texas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether it\u2019s creating jobs, growing opportunities for local businesses, or improving energy and water infrastructure, we\u2019re committed to strengthening communities and paying our own way:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We pay the full costs for the energy used by our data centers, so they aren\u2019t passed on to consumers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We pay the full costs associated with water and wastewater usage to ensure our projects don\u2019t negatively impact other customers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We pay for new and existing grid infrastructure needed to serve our data centers, so these costs don\u2019t impact communities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our new Future is for Everyone Fund will invest in teachers, first responders, and energy and water infrastructure through customized programs shaped by community needs in Texas and across the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We publish detailed information in our<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability.atmeta.com\/2025-sustainability-report\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">annual sustainability report<\/span> <\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about our energy and water usage, restoration projects, and progress.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We support Governor Abbott\u2019s efforts to conduct a comprehensive review of data center growth in Texas and look forward to being a collaborative partner with state and industry officials, utilities, and local communities. For Meta, we don\u2019t just build here, we invest here. And thousands of Meta employees are proud to call Texas home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about Meta\u2019s data center initiatives and our commitment to responsible growth at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/datacenters.atmeta.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">datacenters.atmeta.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v5.0\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2026\/08\/meta-upholds-texas-governor-greg-abbotts-data-center-standards\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta commends Texas Governor Greg Abbott\u2019s leadership and welcomes his continued efforts to protect ratepayers, conserve water, and promote responsible data center development in Texas.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s creating jobs, growing opportunities for local businesses, or improving energy and water infrastructure, we\u2019re committed to strengthening communities and paying our own way: We pay the full costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scannn.com\/lv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}