Gina Hinojosa, elected this week as Texas’s next governor, said the state will introduce laws to shield residents from the effects of data centers.
“We will have laws to protect Texans, and we need to stop what we are doing with data centers until we have those protections,” Governor-elect Hinojosa, a Democrat, told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview on Thursday.
Hinojosa defeated the Republican incumbent Greg Abbott in Tuesday’s election.
One of Hinojosa’s campaign promises was a moratorium on new data center projects.
On Thursday, she said new data centers should proceed only if communities have a “seat at the table” in how they are run….