https://blog.monsterzero.org/categories/data-centers/Recent content in Data-Centers on Monster ZeroHugoen-usMon, 31 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0500https://blog.monsterzero.org/posts/texas-data-center-ndas/Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0500https://blog.monsterzero.org/posts/texas-data-center-ndas/When elected officials sign NDAs with the developers whose projects they&#39;ll later vote on, the public hearing becomes theater. Here&#39;s why that arrangement is a structural conflict, not just a secrecy problem, and how to check if your city or county has signed one.https://blog.monsterzero.org/posts/texas-power-line-gamble/Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:00:00 -0500https://blog.monsterzero.org/posts/texas-power-line-gamble/Three 765-kV transmission corridors, thousands of acres of private land, and a $100 billion bill headed for every Texas ratepayer. Here&#39;s who&#39;s actually paying for this and who benefits.https://blog.monsterzero.org/posts/texas-data-center-pause/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:43:00 -0500https://blog.monsterzero.org/posts/texas-data-center-pause/Governor Abbott ordered a statewide audit of every data center in ERCOT&#39;s interconnection queue, freezing new grid connections for 1,800 projects and 474 gigawatts of power requests.https://blog.monsterzero.org/posts/ai-data-centers/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:00:00 -0500https://blog.monsterzero.org/posts/ai-data-centers/<p>On May 11, 2026, the Cooke County Commissioners Court passed a resolution asking the state of Texas to give counties more say over how data centers get built and run. The resolution doesn&rsquo;t oppose the industry outright. It says plainly that these facilities will matter to the state&rsquo;s economy, then says just as plainly that they use enormous amounts of water and electricity, and that rural communities like this one are left with little control over either. Cooke County isn&rsquo;t an outlier here. It&rsquo;s one of a growing list of rural Texas counties reaching the same conclusion at close to the same time.</p>