Axios: Texas turns on data centers

 👢 Texas turns on data centers
 
A data center in Ashburn, Va. Photo: Caroline Gutman for The New York TimesTexas Gov. Greg Abbott delivered one of the starkest warnings yet from a Republican to the AI industry, saying data center companies deserve the backlash they’re facing, Axios’ Andrew Pantazi and Ben Geman report.

Why it matters: Abbott is the latest governor to sharply change course on the AI data center boom he once enthusiastically courted, as local opposition becomes a potent political force.

🤠 Zoom out: Texas is among the hottest data center markets, with developers initially attracted by a pro-business state that has ample amounts of natural gas and renewables, energy infrastructure, and land.

Abbott told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on “This Week” that the backlash stems from the rapid buildout and developers’ failure to win community support. “They basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them,” Abbott said. “And that’s why they got the backlash they deserve.”

📻 President Trump defended data centers during an interview with his former fixer, Michael Cohen, aired yesterday on 77 WABC in New York.

Trump told Cohen that the U.S. was leading China in AI “by a lot” and that data centers were not taking power from the grid.

“They’re making their own power plants. They’re building the most beautiful, you’ve never seen power plants like this,” Trump said. “Communities that don’ttake a data center, they’re making a mistake” because data centers create “tremendous amounts of jobs and money,” he added.

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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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