Calhoun County, Texas is a coastal county in Southeast Texas that has become a focus for data center development due to its proximity to the Port of Corpus Christi and access to cooling water resources.
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Meanwhile, a four-reactor SMR proposal from Dow and X-energy in Calhoun County, Texas hit a wall when the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board intervened on financial-qualification grounds, injecting fresh uncertainty into nuclear-backed datacenter timelines in the state.