Trump Districts Hold 59% of Texas Datacenters. The 2027 Session Just Got Interesting.

Local opposition delayed $64 billion in datacenter projects across 24 states last year, and Texas just handed the industry a structural advantage: 82 of 139 in-state campuses sit in Republican districts whose representatives will write the next round of rules. The developers who pair that political geography with locked transformers, water offsets, and front-loaded community engagement will own the 2027 session.