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Gina Hinojosa: “There are no laws to protect Texans and it is the wild west of data centers.”

Featuring: Gina Hinojosa, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 49

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If data centers were in fact mandated to provide economic benefits to communities, would you support more data centers coming to Texas? Would that be enough for you? Listen, the devil's in the details right now. There are no laws to protect Texans and it is the wild west of data centers. There has been this mad rush, a gold rush, if you will, of data centers into Texas, invited into Texas by the richest tax, with the richest tax breaks in the country that Greg Abbott signed into law. (07:01–07:06)

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Asserts that Texas lacks laws regulating data centers.

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