The ranking lands the same day Corpus Christi's emergency groundwater project, designed to deliver 24 million gallons per day by 2027, faces a court-cleared legal challenge from Sinton, a town of 5,500 whose recent rezoning and substation permitting have Corpus Christi's city manager suspecting an unannounced data center tenant.
A municipal water crisis is colliding with rumored data center development 30 miles north in Sinton, and the interconnection queue suddenly isn't the binding constraint on Texas growth.