[FLASH] Data-centre siting backlash moves from local objection to enforced construction freeze
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a data-centre directive in early August that reporting says halted up to 1,800 projects, requiring that sites not draw community water or tax the state grid; coverage on 23 August describes thousands of projects stalled nationally. A UT/Texas Politics Project poll records continued resistance, and the Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI Data Center Moratorium Act, introduced in March to pause projects drawing 20MW or more, is now reported at roughly 75% public support. The friction sits upstream of the grid and power-construction names whose backlogs are underwritten by data-centre demand.