{"id":420789,"date":"2026-08-30T04:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420789\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T04:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:15:34","slug":"join-us-sept-9-in-austin-and-online-for-a-discussion-on-the-politics-of-data-centers-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/420789\/","title":{"rendered":"Join us Sept. 9 in Austin and online for a discussion on the politics of data centers in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data centers are reshaping Texas communities, and the politics around them don\u2019t break along familiar lines.\u00a0 Join The Texas Tribune at 9 a.m. Wednesday Sept. 9 in Austin or online for a conversation that goes beyond the headlines to examine where Texans actually stand on the data center boom, how opinions are shifting and what it means for the elections ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The event is the first in a new monthly events series,\u201cBeyond the Headlines,\u201d which brings the Tribune\u2019s stories to life and explores what\u2019s really at stake for our state and our communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speakers for the Sept. 9 event include Paul Cobler, economy and industry reporter at the Texas Tribune; Taylor Goldenstein, enterprise and investigative reporter at the Texas Tribune; and James Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project. The conversation is moderated by Rebekah Allen, managing director of politics and enterprise at the Texas Tribune.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/politicsofdatacenterstx.splashthat.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RSVP here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data centers are reshaping Texas communities, and the politics around them don\u2019t break along familiar lines.\u00a0 Join The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-420789","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\/420789","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=420789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}