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)