AI is eating Texas.
Hundreds of data centers are coming for Texas water and power while Ken Paxton cashes checks from the industry and Musk's money backs him.
The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor.
Donald Trump, Truth Social, August 31, 2026
Tell that to the 57% of Texans who don't want one near them, or to the towns whose water he is not paying for.
The biggest land and water grabs
Fermi "Project Matador"
Billed as the world's largest data center. Co-founded by Rick Perry, Trump's first Energy Secretary, whose stake was worth about $540 million at IPO. It lost its main tenant and faces a class action.
Stargate campus
Up to 1,200 MW, about a third of Houston's households' worth of power.
Paxton left residents hanging
As a 2,100-acre AI development and a bitcoin mine loomed, residents pushed for a moratorium. County leaders asked AG Paxton if they could act. Six months later, he still had not answered.
Sued into submission
A developer's $100 million+ lawsuit forced the county to drop its data center ban.
Texas by the numbers
Sought in the Texas grid queue, five times peak demand. About 90% is data centers.
Source: Texas Tribune, Aug 2026 ↗Data center companies that answered the state's water and power survey.
Source: Texas Tribune, Aug 2026 ↗data center companies answered Texas' survey on their water and power use
Source: Texas Tribune, Aug 2026 ↗Abbott hit pause only after the backlash
Gov. Greg Abbott froze new data center grid connections on Aug. 3 pending an audit, only after public backlash.
Democratic nominee Gina Hinojosa called it lip service from a governor who has "taken millions from data center CEOs."
Musk's deepfake machine, Paxton's backer
More on Grok and kids on the Children page.
Sued over sexual images of minors
Musk's xAI faces a class action alleging its tools were used to make sexual images of kids. Musk's America PAC is now spending to elect Ken Paxton.
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Make Big Tech pay its own way: no more blank checks, no more cost-shifting onto our power bills, real protections for our water, jobs and kids.