AIUpdated November 8
Texas’s data-center buildout faces political uncertainty
Texas was on track to host one of the world’s largest concentrations of data centers. Axios reports Elon Musk spent $225 million on Texas races—about half his national total—and that Democrat James Talarico directly challenged him, saying the Senate seat did not belong to Musk. Axios says the state’s data-center buildout is now at risk. After the Democratic rout, Musk posted that data centers in space looked “pretty appealing.”
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Key Actors
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- Democratic Party
- Donald Trump
- Gina Hinojosa
- Greg Casar
- Republican Party
- United States Congress
