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Texas is experiencing an AI-driven data center boom with at least 248 projects planned statewide.

Here’s what to know about the industry’s rapid growth and the debate over its impact. https://t.co/nVZ0p4RtzB

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 1, 2026

here is the entirety of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's televised nervous breakdown this morning on CNBC pic.twitter.com/gzD8debrKB

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 1, 2026

Gov. Greg Abbott calls for ban on data center development in rural Texas neighborhoods.

Abbott previously outlined a broad regulatory framework around data centers amid backlash from rural communities around their impact on residential neighborhoods. https://t.co/MpWobeCej8

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 1, 2026

(Rural voters in Texas are largely Republican voters.)

Because there seems to be a major disconnect. (Although I do think Karp and Vance are connected at some quantum level, because they both go off like lunatics at roughly the same time. Or maybe it’s just a contagion passed from Karp to Thiel to Vance.)

"This is the voice of the American business community, channeled through me" has the exact same arrogance as JD Vance's whole "this is the voice of Christian theology, channeled through me" schtick. https://t.co/CvV6LtuEHz

— Sean Casten (@SeanCasten) July 1, 2026

Somethin’s happenin’ here….