John Coogan

So good luck to him.

Godspeed, Ty.

This is a hilarious

Hilarious song lyric.

Just when I thought I got him to fall in love with Tennessee, I should have known better than to take him back to Abilene.

Abilene, Texas.

They were singing about data centers in Ella Langley's Choosing Texas, a song that has ranked near the top of America's music charts throughout 2026.

Some of those listens may be coming from policymakers elsewhere in the country.

Much like Miss Langley, they are losing to Texas.

On May 27th, Exxon Mobil shareholders approved a plan to cut the oil giant's ties with New Jersey and reincorporate in Texas, where it has long had its headquarters.

It's not alone.

According to CBRE, a property firm, at least 184 companies shifted their headquarters to Austin, Dallas, or Houston between 2020 and 2025.

Among them, Tesla, a car company, and Caterpillar, a maker of construction equipment.

Texas is steadily establishing itself as America's

America inks new center of gravity.

No state receives more business investment or is adding more people to its population.

From 2020 to 2025, it created roughly a fifth of all net new jobs in the country.

In the early 2020s, Texas was luring remote workers, fleeing high taxes, exorbitant house prices, and bad policies in America's coastal metropolises.

While benefiting from the Biden administration subsidies for green energy and chip making facilities,

Now the state's dominance in energy has made it a major beneficiary of the data center boom.