"GOP state leaders have for years engaged in an expanding war on local control—aimed at big blue cities—in favor of state supremacy. But that ideological shift now has local Republicans finding that they, too, have fallen prey to that crusade."
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Kit O'Connell (🏳️🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽)
NEW: I went inside one Texas county's data center boom—and backlash—to report on how the state GOP's data center divide will shape the next legislative session.
Bonus scooplet: I got into a local meeting with a state senator working to draft a data center bill.
www.texasobserver.org/data-center-...
In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties and slow AI-fueled development.
