{"id":231777,"date":"2026-04-02T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231777\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:55:10","slug":"texas-regulator-grilled-over-data-center-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/231777\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas regulator grilled over data center costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas lawmakers on Wednesday blasted the state\u2019s top electricity regulator for not committing to make sweeping changes this year that could help protect residents from rising power prices as data centers flock to the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Texas Senate\u2019s Business and Commerce Committee said they receive daily calls on everything from how data centers affect manufacturers\u2019 electricity plans to how regulators decide on transmission line projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverywhere we go, people are asking us about data centers, and costs, and all these things,\u201d Vice Chair Sen. Phil King, a Republican, said during a committee hearing. \u201cWe need to be able to tell our constituents it\u2019s getting done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Gleeson, chair of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and Pablo Vegas, CEO of the state\u2019s main grid operator, described how they\u2019re working to bring data centers online while trying to avoid price spikes for residential consumers. But Gleeson did not commit to pushing through big transmission adjustments in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas lawmakers on Wednesday blasted the state\u2019s top electricity regulator for not committing to make sweeping changes this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-231777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}