Official Position Paper: Texas Governor-Elect's Six Data Center Policy Details
GavinSBaker · x · 2026-11-06
Gavin Baker posted the official position from Gina Hinojosa's campaign website, listing the data center priorities for the new legislative session: requiring the hiring of US union labor, giving Texans a say over local data center siting, banning data center companies from using NDAs, ensuring residents' electricity and water prices don't rise (including hidden costs of grid upgrades), ending subsidies so data centers pay their own way, and making water contracts that threaten community water supplies unenforceable.
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