Veronica Escobar: “In El Paso, we already have four data centers in our region.”

“These are the folks who basically swung the doors open and offered invitations to data centers to very surreptitiously come into communities and rapidly expand. I will tell you, In El Paso, we already have four data centers in our region. There's one in southern New Mexico. There's a META data center that is under construction right now. The United States army is, is planning on building one in Fort Bliss.” (07:57–08:03)

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