Austin is among at least five Texas school districts inching toward state sanctions because of chronic academic underperformance.

The state’s power grid operator had already planned on auditing several data center proposals, but Abbott’s directive reworks the timeline and adds new requirements.

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Without key details on the audits but the eagerness to support them, policy watchers question how impactful these audits will be in curbing data center growth.