BG READS - August 4, 2026

Today's BG Reads include:

🟪 Apollo Global Management confirms plans for HQ2 in Austin (Austin Business Journal)

🟪 ‘Too important to spook’: Inside the fight over Tesla’s Travis County tax breaks (Austin American-Statesman)

🟪 Austin City Council hires firm for efficiency review (Austin American-Statesman)

🟪 Another big data center campus planned for Taylor (Austin Business Journal)

🟪 Data center approvals in Texas halted until audits completed, Gov. Greg Abbott says (Texas Tribune)

🟪 Ken Paxton is acting like he thinks he could lose (Texas Monthly)

🟪 Kansas’ data center boom is shaking up the governor’s race (Politico)

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