Private-public partnerships are a fuck. The public puts in the legwork and the private reaps the rewards.
Imagine believing the State of Texas can build anything.
They even can't build fucking prisons or highways anymore, and those were the two things we got good at.
Texas literally just doing gulf state style state capitalism makes a lot of sense and I'm surprised they haven't done it already.
“We can’t just have a public utility, we’ve gotta find someone to extract profits from this!”