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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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April 15, 2026

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Build Your Own Power Plant or Lose Your Place in Line

Northern Virginia and Dallas-Fort Worth have already seen under-construction capacity decline due to power procurement failures.

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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