Oh, CenterPoint Energy.
The same utility whose system saw nearly 2.3 MILLION Houston-area customers lose power during Hurricane Beryl.
The same company whose CEO, Jason Wells, received $12.1 MILLION in compensation last year.
The same company that is now in the news over a customer data leak.
So I went looking. (Not that I needed to)
In just the FY2026 Q3 federal H-1B disclosure data, I found:
46 LCA records naming CenterPoint as the secondary employer/end client.
Those 46 filings came through 29 different outside employers.
38 list CenterPoint’s 1111 Louisiana Street headquarters in Houston as the worksite.
45 were certified.
1 was certified and later withdrawn.
Now look at some of the jobs:
• Security Analyst
• Information Security Engineer
• Information Security Analyst
• Associate Analyst – Information Security
• Software Developers
• Database Administrators
• Data Scientists
• Systems Administrators
• SAP consultants
Yes, you read that correctly.
The company now making headlines over customer data had H-1B contractor filings for information-security personnel sitting in the same federal data.
And this isn’t some decade-long total.
This is ONE FY2026 disclosure file, through June 30.
The contractor names include Cognizant, Compunnel, Ernst & Young, Resolve Tech, Pioneer Tek, Zeus Solutions and dozens more.
So, CenterPoint can look like it barely sponsors H-1Bs itself while an entire layer of outside staffing and consulting firms files visa paperwork naming CenterPoint as the actual end client.
After Beryl, Houstonians were told to demand accountability for the grid.
After this latest data story, maybe we should also demand accountability for who is actually operating the technology behind one of Texas’s most critical utilities.