Irrelevant in every significant way.
Important military facilities need to be located as far away from population centers as possible.
Not only is Austin a stupid place for something like this, it is irresponsible of Abbott not to oppose vocally.
Placing it in Texas makes sense. But in a remote military area.
CENTCOM is located in am urban area.
One of the goals of the futures command is to work with academia. There are not many universities in remote areas. The planners were also looking for universities who want to work with the military. Not all of them wanted that partnership. The U of TX was one of the universities that did want this. I’m glad it went to TX.