What is Texas?

The Supreme Court reversed a district court's factual findings in a Texas redistricting case without applying the required 'clearly erroneous' standard, simply ignoring the findings rather than overturning them on the merits.

“The Supreme Court just staves that decision in a five paragraph order that never says the district court's factf finding was wrong or even worse was clearly erroneous which is the standard they're supposed to follow it just pretends that they're not bound by it at all.”

74% of all US solar capacity installed in Q1 2026 was in Trump-voting states: Texas, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Arizona, and Mississippi.

“Seventy four percent of all solar capacity that was installed in the first quarter of twenty six was in Texas, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Arizona, and Mississippi, all that voted for Trump.”

Saronic is building what would be the largest shipyard in the US on an 800-acre plot in Brownsville, Texas, expandable to 4,000 acres, aimed at autonomous naval vessels at scale.

“We're going to start on a 800-acre plot of land, which in and of itself 800 acres is now the largest shipyard in the United States.”

Speculative interconnection queues vastly overstate real demand. Once financial commitment is required, expected demand falls by one-third, revealing that most queue entries are placeholder bets rather than firm plans.

“What we know from a few early trials of adding financial commitment to those proposed connections to the electricity grid. So Texas is moving in that direction, Illinois, a few other states, is that the "expected demand" is down by a third from the prospective demand as well.”

The current wave of challenges to the executive branch comes from judges across the entire country, not just a handful of strategically chosen district judges in Texas as critics allege.

“The data set suggests that this is not just, you know, what we saw during the Biden administration, which is a handful of handpicked district judges in Texas trying to dictate national policy. This is, you know, a universe of judges from across the country looking at an executive branch acting in ways they've never seen before.”

When financial commitment is required for grid connection requests, expected demand falls by one-third compared to prospective demand, based on early trials in Texas and Illinois.

“What we know from a few early trials of adding financial commitment to those proposed connections to the electricity grid. So Texas is moving in that direction, Illinois, a few other states, is that the "expected demand" is down by a third from the prospective demand as well.”

A federal OSHA heat standard could paradoxically weaken worker protections: in states without their own OSHA plans, a weak federal standard would legally preempt stronger city or county heat ordinances.

“If OSHA has a standard, then states without state OSHA plans, which are most states actually, would be procluded from doing anything like Texas, if the state legislature allowed them to do it, a Texas city couldn't issue a heat ordinance or New York couldn't do that.”

Doug Arent on the real scale of Texas's 300 GW interconnection queue.

“That 300 gigawatts or something of request is not real. What they look at is what's really in the queue, who's willing to pay to get in the queue and that's incrementally tens of gigawatts going forward per year, which they think they can manage.”

Texas's expanded food freedom laws now allow selling almost anything from a home kitchen, dismantling the regulatory barrier that kept micro-food businesses from scaling.

“Texas just expanded their laws. They're called food freedom laws. So, you can actually sell almost anything out of your house now.”

Shayle Kann on the political calculus forcing every governor to go hard on data centers in 2026.

“Now every single governor that wants to run for election this fall, which includes Governor Abbott, has to look tough on data centers. Otherwise, there's no chance that they win their election.”