News Summary

• Data centres have become a major issue in the races for governor and a US Senate seat.
• Candidates from opposite parties have independently landed on the same water policy.
• The industry has noticed the change.
• Its response has so far been a charm offensive built around community funds and local hiring promises, aimed at a problem that has moved beyond planning meetings and into election campaigns.
• What Texas decides will matter well beyond Texas.
• It has one of the country’s most permissive power markets and the largest concentration of data centre projects.