Gov. Abbott & AG Paxton have promised to crack down on data centers who failed to report their water use. But experts say the penalties the state can issue have limitations. The penalty? A max $500 for companies worth millions. #txlege For @TexasTribune texastribune.org/2026/10/14/…

My data center prediction: In the next 1-2 yrs, all will be self contained power & water using closed loop systems & companied like $BE & might be putting power back on the grid lowering energy costs. Small towns who drove them out will regret not having their franchise $ & tax rev. In 5-10 yrs, @elonmusk & @JeffBezos will move data centers to space & the same people who are railing against them now, will be bitching about them being taken out of communities. Bookmark this.

Google is willing to pay for the power it needs. That’s not the problem. The problem is the utility incentive: own the generation and transmission, put it in rate base, and earn a regulated return—financed by captive ratepayers. With enormous new electricity demand coming, that model has limits. Ratepayers cannot be expected to finance every billion-dollar project needed to serve new large loads, particularly when much of the investment is driven by a specific customer. We need alternatives like Bring Your Own Power that allow large loads to pay their own way. If Google—or any large customer—is willing to finance the infrastructure it needs, policy should enable it. Economic growth shouldn’t require making residential and small-business customers the default financiers of every new power project.

"You ask for miracles Theo, I give you the NOT. Q. E."

Wild to see ~90GW peaks daily in Texas w/ no drama whatsoever. No conservation calls: we had 13 in 2023 (!) with 5 GW less demand. There's 25 GW of extra capacity now at the time of highest demand. Solar power is the difference. Batteries charging for tonight. #txlege #txenergy

Elon is after Microsoft now!! Cursor is planning to kill Github Yesterday GitHub went down for 7 and a half hours. Website, Actions, Copilot, code merging, all of it. 15,000 developers reported outage. GitHub's own CTO admitted they planned for 10x capacity and realized they needed 30x. They're now renting servers from AWS, Microsoft's biggest cloud rival. Cursor launched Origin the same day.

This is absolutely insane. The free internet is dead if a state court can pull a website offline worldwide simply because the registry for its domain is based in the United States. That puts the world’s access to information at the mercy of state lawmakers and judges—in this case, in Texas. Should Texas get to dictate what content the whole world can access on the open internet? Of course not. And I assume Texans would say the same if Russia, China, or even Australia claimed the same authority.

Terafab approximate size comparison between Giga Texas, the Pentagon, Apple Park, and the Mall of America. There has never been a building this large. Elon Musk says it will be the most valuable building by far.

Air conditioning demand in extreme Texas heat pushed the ERCOT grid beyond 91 gigawatts today. Before yesterday, we had never exceeded 86 GW so this record shatters the old one. Note there was >20 GW of buffer, no energy emergency, no conservation call. #txlege #txenergy 1/

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Overheard at a dinner with tech CEOs the other night: The top 1% of customer success and sales people at their companies are becoming hybrid "forward-deployed product managers" They're not just managing relationships and relaying requests to product and engineering, but building features themselves. They don't need t wait for engineering, product or design. They can ship exactly what the customer wants, instantly. This is becoming prevalent at early-stage startups. Roles as we know them are going to look completely different in a few years.

Tucker Carlson just gave the most brutally honest marriage advice I’ve ever heard: Don’t say “Whatever you want, babe.” When she asks orange or pink napkins? You confidently say “Pink.” She’ll correct you to orange — then you immediately declare “Orange is perfect” like it was your idea. Same with dinner. She doesn’t want you to hand over every decision. She wants you to lead… while she still feels heard. Tucker’s line: “You’re repeating her choice back to her as a decision.” Raw. Funny. And probably true. A lot of modern relationship advice ignores how men and women actually communicate in real life. Getting this dynamic right can save years of unnecessary fights. I laughed because I’ve seen this exact dance play out. Tucker has zero filter and it’s oddly refreshing. Married or about-to-be-married people — how accurate is this in your experience?

Mentally healthy people are often delusionally optimistic.

Call me a radical, but NO. We should not be replacing teachers in America with robots. We should attract the best and brightest in our country to become teachers and pay them the decent wages that they deserve.

California now requires every operating system to implement age verification by law. An open-source calculator firmware just geo-blocked the entire state rather than comply. The law (AB-1043) assumes all operating systems work like iOS with centralized accounts. It doesn't account for Linux, embedded systems, open-source firmware, or the millions of devices that simply can't implement ID checks. We covered Apple baking age verification into iPhones for the UK last week. Now it's coming to America, and the scope is far broader than social media. This isn't about protecting children. It's about building the infrastructure for universal digital ID at the operating system level. Once the pipes exist, the use cases expand. They always do. A scientific calculator shouldn't need to know how old you are.