Policy Initiatives
Policy & Advocacy
We work to advance policy that supports the infrastructure powering modern life—energy, data centers, digital assets, and emerging technologies across Texas.
From how we communicate and transact to how we power our grid and secure our future, these systems matter. Our role is to ensure policymakers have the right information, the right stakeholders, and the right framework to support innovation while protecting reliability and growth.
Our Approach
Collaboration
We work directly with operators, innovators, and policymakers to shape balanced, effective regulations grounded in real-world operations.
Education
We provide policymakers with clear, practical insight into digital infrastructure, energy markets, and the evolving role of blockchain, AI, and data systems.
Engagement
We routinely engage with regulators and policymakers at both the state and local level to ensure that policy decisions are made with the right information and the right stakeholders at the table.
Areas of Advocacy
Large Load & Grid Integration
Advocating for rules that recognize the unique grid value and operational characteristics of large flexible loads and digital infrastructure.
Energy Policy & Market Design
Providing members with insight and advocacy on capacity markets, demand response, and policies that support grid reliability and efficiency.
Digital Assets & Financial Policy
Supporting clear, workable frameworks for digital assets, stablecoins, and blockchain-based financial systems—including engagement with banks and credit institutions entering the space.
Tax & Regulatory Clarity
Advocating for predictable, transparent tax and regulatory treatment for digital infrastructure and related industries.
Local Policy & Zoning
Working with communities and local leaders to address concerns, educate stakeholders, and support responsible development.
Emerging Technology Policy
Advocating for forward-looking policy frameworks around AI, quantum computing, cybersecurity, and state adoption of next-generation technologies.
Why It Matters
A data center isn’t abstract—it’s the system behind your bank transaction, your child’s school platform, your medical records, and the reliability of the grid itself.
The policies shaping these systems will determine whether innovation happens here—or somewhere else.
Texas is leading. Our goal is to keep it that way.
Our Impact
We don’t just talk about policy—we help shape it.
ERCOT engagement on large load policy and LVRT discussions
Legislative engagement including SB 6, SB 21, and digital asset frameworks
Stablecoin and financial system policy discussions
Local advocacy efforts supporting responsible infrastructure development
Ongoing coordination with regulators, agencies, and legislative offices
CURRENT INITIATIVES
Texas Blockchain Council Policy Platform 89th Session
(2025)
We believe that the digital asset industry aligns with fundamental American principles and the universal desire to have a prosperous and free society. Policy should seek to reinforce and honor those principles.
Chief among these principles are:
Private Property Rights
• All individuals and companies have a right to own and self-custody digital assets and participate freely in the digitally native economy being built on blockchains such as bitcoin.
Policy Recommendations, Bills, and Resolutions:
o DAO Bill
o Blockchain Based Land Administration Bill
o Unclaimed Property Bill
• Exchanges and service providers should ensure customer funds are not commingled or mishandled.
Energy Innovation
• The bitcoin mining industry is a valuable energy grid citizen and policy should embrace and empower all innovations like bitcoin mining that enable a more energy abundant future.
• Flexible loads provide outsized benefits to the grid and renewable energy development and should be encouraged as a matter of policy. Policy Recommendations, Bills, and Resolutions:
o Large Flexible Load
Bill Privacy and Financial Services Innovation
• Privacy, including the unauthorized collection of data from phones and other hardware devices, must be respected. Peer to peer transactions, whether digital or in person, have a right to privacy.
• For concerns related to privacy and federal overreach, we oppose a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Policy Recommendations, Bills, and Resolutions:
o UCC Chapter 12 Update o Anti-CBDC Resolution • Banking / Stable Coins / Asset Management
