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Lawmakers press water board on data‑center water demand and adaptation options
Summary
Members pressed TWDB and planning staff about how fast‑moving data center projects should be monitored and planned for, asking whether state planning cycles, MAG/DFC rules and grant programs can keep up with rapid commercial demand.
Lawmakers used the TWDB briefing to press the agency on a fast‑moving policy question: how should planners and regulators account for accelerating commercial demands such as data centers and large industrial projects?
Representative Dean and others raised concerns that the state's five‑year state and regional planning cycles and the joint groundwater planning process can lag behind private sector proposals and suggested targeted interim hearings. TWDB officials said they account for proposed data‑center…
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