Texas Draws a Line Against the Data Center Boom: Why One Rural County’s Construction Ban Signals a Growing National Collision Between AI Infrastructure, Water, Energy, and Community Survival
For years, data centers existed largely out of public view — anonymous industrial facilities powering cloud storage, social media platforms, streaming services, financial systems, and the invisible architecture of the modern internet. Most people rarely thought about where digital infrastructure physically lived, how much energy it consumed, or what happened environmentally when massive computational systems […]















