This includes repealing Texas’ data center sales-tax exemption, something Republican Gov. One of Winklevoss Capital’s portfolio companies , Crusoe Energy, provides data center infrastructure, and Winklevoss previously worked with a Dallas-based firm to develop gas-powered data centers. Meanwhile, data center donations to Paxton’s political team keep coming. A few individual donors with ties to the data center industry made donations to Paxton’s campaign last fall. None of the donors or companies immediately responded to NOTUS’ requests for comment on their contributions to Paxton’s political operation.