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Dallas Exurb Hits Pause on Data Centers in Rare Texas Rebuke

Bloomberg Tech · May 13, 2026, 5:19 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

A small Texas county outside Dallas approved a one-year moratorium on new data center and energy storage developments, pushing back against the growing number of large-scale projects fueling the artificial-intelligence boom across the state.

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