OpenAI Publishes Letter to Texas Gov. Abbott Backing State Data-Center Standards

OpenAI posted a letter to Governor Greg Abbott committing to comply with Texas's new data-center standards — pay for its own electric infrastructure, reuse water where possible, avoid disrupting residential neighborhoods, and forgo taxpayer-funded incentives. The letter lands days after Abbott froze new data-center power connections pending a PUC and ERCOT audit, and reframes OpenAI's Texas Stargate buildout as a good-faith compliance story rather than a grid-cost fight.