Abbott escalates: Texas 'must prohibit' AI data centers in rural neighborhoods
At a campaign event in Bullard, East Texas, Governor Abbott said "we must prohibit them from building AI data centers in rural Texas neighborhoods", an escalation well beyond his June 10 cost-shifting directive and tax-repeal recommendation, and rhetoric that tracks the 62% rural opposition in the UT poll.
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