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Texans push back against giant data centers: The data center gold rush is hitting Texas hard and some rural Texans are fighting back.
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Gina Hinojosa won the governor’s race. What happens to Texas data centers now?: The governor-elect has called for a data center moratorium to last until the ...
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Data centers got hammered in the midterms. These key votes show how.: Dozens of referendums restricted data center construction, as the Democrats flipped Texas ...
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Schrödinger’s Election: AI Data Centers Were on the Ballot Even When They Weren’t
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Texas Data Center Boom Collides With Backlash Ahead of Midterms: Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s efforts to slow down data center construction ...
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Paid articlePaywallData center backlash is uniting America: Candidates’ positions on data center guardrails and moratoriums could play key roles in close elections in Texas ...
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Texas has suspended 17 data center construction permits and shut down automated portal that rubber-stamped projects — site was left running for a month after ...
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Greg Abbott ordered a pause on data center permits. Critics say some plans still moved forward.
texastribune.org/2026/10/20/data-center-permits-tceq-abbott-texas-pause/

Data centers pump $340M into rural Texas projects as they try to improve their reputations
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Greg Abbott has moved on data centers. Will it stop a rural revolt?: Some rural Republicans say Abbott's proposed data center restrictions are too little ...
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In rural Texas, data center opposition is scrambling conservative tradition: A preference for small government has faded as Republican voters press leaders to ...
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East Texas county judge urges state lawmakers to help locals combat data center proliferation
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Texas Ag Commissioner calls for pause on new AI data centers: As new data centers move into rural Texas, Commissioner Sid Miller said farmers ...
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Sid Miller calls for data center moratorium in Texas: Texas has become a hotbed of data center construction, with companies lured by low energy costs and ...
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Texas Republicans have a data center problem: Data center construction is unpopular among locals, and a majority of the facilities are being proposed in red ...
texastribune.org/2026/05/07/texas-republicans-data-centers-rural/

‘It will forever change who we are’: Rural Texans brace for data center invasion: As AI fuels a rush of data centers across Texas, rural residents mobilize ...
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TribCast: Texas’ looming data center fight: As Texas lawmakers prepare to tackle the thorny data center issue next session, what can we learn from ...
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Data center opponents put Ken Paxton in bind ahead of Senate runoff: The attorney general is caught between rural voters trying to slow the flood of data centers ...
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