it worked so well for their electrical grid, why not

In a vacuum I could see this being a very positive endeavor. However judging from the listed backers of this scheme and their explicitly stated goals I can't see it being anything but a horror show.

All I see is a way for the rich to rig the game even more than they already do so they get richer while the poor get poorer.

It's about control.

This idea has a distinctly musky smell about it

Good luck powering the servers that make those transactions

Why does it matter where they're located. Trading is online and there's really no reason, aside from tradition, to have people on a floor trading securities.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The group, which includes BlackRock, Citadel Securities and about two dozen investors, raised approximately $120 million of capital to create the Texas Stock Exchange, which would be headquartered in Dallas.

Combined with the demand we are seeing from investors and corporations for expanded alternatives to trade and list equities, this is an opportune time to build a major, national stock exchange in Texas,” said James Lee, founder and CEO of TXSE Group.

If the SEC clears TXSE to begin operations, it will be the first stock exchange to launch in the country in recent years.

Texas, comparably to California, is growing economically and demographically really fast, and already has a big number of Fortune 500 biggest companies headquarters, so it makes sense Dallas would be an ideal place,” said Steven Pedigo, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs and an expert in economic and urban development.

TXSE founders said they chose Texas as the home for the new national securities exchange because of the state’s rapid economic and population growth.

Pedigo said this new stock exchange wouldn’t necessarily lead to more jobs being created in the state but would help further bolster the pro-business image Texas has been working on for years.

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