AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Texas lawmakers blasted data center developers Tuesday at the state Capitol, saying they haven\u2019t shared enough information about their water usage.<\/p>\n
Dozens of public speakers also argued that Texas needs to act faster to protect water resources from data centers \u2014 or give counties the ability to fight back against development.<\/p>\n
The comments came during a state House Natural Resources Committee hearing that stretched for 10 hours. Growing angst over data center development has become a top issue for Texas state legislators, who say they\u2019ve been hounded by constituents and local officials to provide more guardrails for the industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou understand why we\u2019re a little frustrated in general with data centers because a few months ago some of us were on the campaign trail,\u201d said state Rep. Trent Ashby, a Republican, said to a panel of data center officials. \u201cAnd at that time, the No. 1 issue was property tax relief. But since [the primaries], all I\u2019ve heard about is data center relief.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Texas lawmakers blasted data center developers Tuesday at the state Capitol, saying they haven\u2019t shared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-348919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348919","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=348919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}