Texas Lawmakers Attempt to Track Data Centers' Water Usage
Candidates in both parties are backing tighter water and grid rules as 474 GW of power requests and weak disclosure fuel voter backlash, officials said.
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Texas Republicans turn against AI data centers in major policy shift | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
NEW YORK >> Less than a year ago, Texas Governor Greg Abbott hailed Texas as the “epicenter of AI development.” Now, in his bid for re-election, he is calling for sweeping new restrictions on data centers.
Water-cooling equipment is connected to an OpenAI data center building during a visit to the facilities in Abilene, Texas, United States. Shelby Tauber / Reuters Less than a year ago, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the state was the epicenter of artificial intelligence development.Now, in the middle of the re-election campaign, he advocates broad restrictions on data centers. Abbott is not alone. ✅ Follow the international news channel of g1 on…
Texas Republicans are running against data centres, and both Senate candidates want the same water rules
Texas spent a decade telling data centre developers they were welcome. Now its Republicans are competing over who can regulate them most aggressively, a shift that Reuters reports has put Big Tech on notice in the state that hosts more data centres than any other. The change is showing up on the ballot. Data centres […] This story continues at The Next Web
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