Serving the people of House District 58 is a responsibility I carry with deep respect for the communities, land, and resources that make Johnson and Somervell counties such special places to call home. Each month, I share updates from Austin and highlight the issues residents across our district are raising with my office.<\/p>\n
Recently, one issue has come up again and again in conversations with constituents, local officials and community leaders: the rapid expansion of large-scale data center development in North Texas.<\/p>\n
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Helen Kerwin is the state representative representing District 58, which includes Johnson County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serving the people of House District 58 is a responsibility I carry with deep respect for the communities,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3436,132,134,133,356,5421,918,6083,451,8857,973,3621,27,88842],"class_list":["post-229796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-data","tag-data-center","tag-economy","tag-electric-reliability-council-of-texas","tag-energy","tag-energy-industry","tag-infrastructure","tag-technology","tag-texas","tag-world-energy-supply-and-consumption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}