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Texans Challenge Rapid Data Center Expansion
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Relevance ScoreAcross Texas, residents and local officials are mobilizing to oppose a surge of proposed data centers, including a largest-in-U.S. project approved this month in Pecos County and a reported $500 billion development near Abilene as well as a planned 5,800‑acre energy campus in the Panhandle. They cite concerns about water and electricity demand; in 2025 the Legislature passed Senate Bill 6 granting ERCOT oversight, and party leaders in February called for independent project assessments.
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