Compliance with Texas data center standards
Company: CleanSpark
The claim, verbatim
CleanSpark will comply with Texas data center standards and guidelines, including paying for its own electric infrastructure, reusing its own water, reducing electricity costs for Texans, not disrupting residential neighborhoods, and eliminating reliance on taxpayer-funded incentives
Source (primary)
Abbott says Google, Rowan, CleanSpark will meet Texas data center rules - Bryan College Station Eagle (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Governor Greg Abbott today announced that Google, Rowan and CleanSpark will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 19, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The document states Abbott announced CleanSpark will comply with his data center standards and enumerates each of the listed requirements exactly as the claim describes.
Confirmed in the source:
- Governor Abbott announced that CleanSpark will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for Texas data centers
- The Texas standards require data centers to pay for their electric infrastructure instead of shifting costs onto Texas families
- The standards require data centers to reuse their own water
- The standards require data centers to reduce the cost of electricity for Texans
- The standards require data centers not to disrupt residential neighborhoods
- The standards require data centers to pay their own way and eliminate reliance on taxpayer-funded incentives
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://theeagle.com/news/community/article_98f8a319-43fb-526e-a19b-3e09f00af598.html) in full (23,931 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Abbott says Google, Rowan, CleanSpark will meet Texas data center rules - Bryan College Station Eagle
Quote: “Governor Greg Abbott today announced that Google, Rowan and CleanSpark will comply with the standards and guidelines he established for data centers.”