I already gave you the basics two weeks ago, noting that Charles Perry's watery wet dream is an economic boondoggle and an environmental clusterfuck.
The Trib now offers more buttressing for both issues when it says the state doesn't know how much water all the data centers that are scrambling to be built will use.
Tex-ass being Tex-ass, of course, all these data centers will get built out, without a bit of concern coming out of Austin. That's even though what's currently online or planned to go online will use nearly 3 percent of the state's current water by 2030.
This is an additional problem for other reasons.
Two are noted in the Trib. One of them is that some other states are requiring new data sites to have proved-up water supplies. The other is that Trump is pushing data centers here.
The reason noted by the Trib gets back to what I said about Prop 4 — climate change.
Killing Prop 4 won't kill data centers already in the pipeline, of course. But, it could give local-level government an extra tool to play against centers NOT in the pipeline. It could also force the Lege to get more serious about water supply and in a better way than Charles Perry.
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