Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet Inc., companies that operate multiple large-scale datacenters across Texas as part of their cloud infrastructure operations.
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A Texas Politics Project poll shows 56% of Texans oppose data center construction in their communities, versus 9% who strongly support it, which is the political logic behind his reversal from celebrating Google's $40 billion investment alongside Sundar Pichai last November.
It's a sharp turn from the governor who stood with Sundar Pichai in November 2025 to celebrate Google's $40 billion Texas investment and branded the state the "epicenter of AI development."