The Texas Data Center Debate Moved From Whether to How, and Self-Supplied Operators Already Meet the Rules Lawmakers Haven't Written

Texas has stopped arguing about whether to build data centers and started deciding how to govern them. New Texas Public Policy Foundation polling shows more than 60% of Texans worried about local planning, rural counties are pushing back, and lawmakers will shape the rules when they convene in January. The reassuring part for builders is that the answer already exists on the ground. Chevron's grid-independent Project Kilby and modular on-site fuel cells self-supply power and insulate ratepayers, meeting the resource test the poll just set. Preparation, not retreat, clears this politics.