Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers

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Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP, discusses local opposition to data center developers descending on Austin and its surrounding suburbs.

Key points

•Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP, commented on the influx of data center developers to Austin and its surrounding suburbs.
•In Taylor, local opposition is rising against plans to build a data center on a site intended to be a park.
•Locals are opposing multiple data center development projects in the region.

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