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- Big deal hearing it from a Texas GOP governor who's usually in lock step with the Trump administration. Texans must really hate these things across the political spectrum.by goatlover
- Greg Abbott has a long tradition of about-facing ahead of reelection. Ignore anything that comes out of his mouth until after November.
- Abbott will suddenly be in favor of deregulating all data center construction by December. He has a track record on this.
- The polling must have shown a vulnerability - Democrats in Texas (and a few MAGA like Sid Miller) were hammering GOP on this issue until Abbott finally changed his tune. Texas voters hate it more than pedophiles cause Ken Paxton mismanaged a bunch of those cases resulting in lenient plea deals that didn’t make a dent in Paxton support earlier this year, and he won the GOP statewide primary. He probably will win the general election but here’s hoping against it.by stevenwoo
- Popular opinion is at a fever pitch, but many municipalities have put in moratoriums that expire a few days or weeks after the election.
This isn't going anywhere.
by CyanLite2 - There’s literally a commercial featuring Abbot defending data center buildouts and saying how good they are for communities running right now. Like today.by ofjcihen
- Lawl, that's rich -- the buildout happened under his watch.by shoopadoop
- He cozied up to them until public opinion turned against data centersby SonOfKyuss
- Not internalizing the costs of increased electricity consumption was an own goal.by generj
- https://www.anthropic.com/news/covering-electricity-price-in... I think that they tried to?by l1n