Town hall draws packed crowd as Democrats and Republicans find rare common ground on data centers

Town hall draws packed crowd as Democrats and Republicans find rare common ground on data centers

A wave of proposed AI data centers in Hood County, Texas, is uniting people who rarely find themselves on the same side of a political issue.  At a packed town hall in Granbury this week, residents, local officials, and candidates and members of both political parties voiced the same core concern: These massive industrial projects appear to be moving faster than the county's ability to manage their effects on water, electricity, noise, and long-…