{"id":303034,"date":"2026-05-21T14:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/303034\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:51:11","slug":"today-on-texas-standard-texas-data-centers-collide-with-water-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/303034\/","title":{"rendered":"Today on Texas Standard: Texas data centers collide with water shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corpus Christi and the small neighboring town of Sinton are locked in a growing water fight. Corpus Christi, facing a water emergency, is anxious to tap Sinton\u2019s reserve, but the small town is fighting the move in court. Looming over the dispute: Chatter that Sinton is holding out for a large data center development \u2014 projects notorious for massive water demand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"meta \">By Texas StandardMay 21, 2026\u00a09:20 am<a href=\"https:\/\/texasstandard.org\/stories\/categories\/ts-original\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Standard Original<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/texasstandard.org\/stories\/categories\/show\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whole Shows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi and the small neighboring town of Sinton are locked in a growing water fight. Corpus Christi,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-303034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303034","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=303034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}