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Northern Virginia hosts major data center clusters that compete with Texas facilities for cloud infrastructure investment and power capacity.

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August 10, 2026

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Trump Split With Gov. Abbott Just Compressed Every Operator's Audit Timeline

August 1, 2026

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The Same $50K Fee That Screens Datacenters Now Applies to Chevron and Samsung

July 26, 2026

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Sen. Huffman's January Bill Targets the Exemption That Built Fermi and Stargate

February 21, 2026

6.5 GW Building, No Water Plan, No Local Consent

Texas is on track to overtake Northern Virginia as the world's largest data center market by 2030, but the buildout is slamming into a three-front resource crisis: grid connection timelines stretching four-plus years, water consumption projected to hit 29 to 161 billion gallons annually by 2030, and organized community resistance that's already killing projects.

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