400 Projects, Two Unanswered Questions, One Legislative Clock

Texas lawmakers just put 400 planned facilities and the state's claim on 30% of national data center demand under a two-question stress test: who pays for grid upgrades, and who actually knows how much water these projects need over the next half-century. Aligned's 540 MW Caprock groundbreaking in Hale County and Amazon's all-infrastructure-costs-covered Mississippi playbook are showing developers exactly how to answer both questions before legislators make the asking mandatory.