{"id":230856,"date":"2026-04-03T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/the-texas-data-center-rebellion-has-begun\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:15:11","slug":"the-texas-data-center-rebellion-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/the-texas-data-center-rebellion-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Texas Data Center Rebellion Has Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas Data Center Rebellion Has Begun<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/deceleration.news\/texas-data-center-rebellion-artificial-intelligence-water-power\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-03 15:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: deceleration.news<\/a><\/p>\n

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No One, No One?<\/h3>\n

“No one here is really against AI,” the local attendee of the Texas Data Center Rebellion told me, matter-of-factly. “Think about it: Your cup was made with AI. Your shirt was made with AI.” It was a frank assessment, and, as the day wore on, proved to be a tad fringe. There was a definite “burn it down” sentiment among many of these who are losing the fields they played on as children, choking on air pollution from new power plants feeding the facilities, or watching a retreating aquifer in the Panhandle get tapped for demands expected to literally suck away their future. Yes, we’re embedded in AI. But that’s a new condition. For those holding out for the next cool gadget, maybe that after hearing Sanjay Ravigopal\u2014who, yeah, is building a career inside artificial intelligence, albeit as a rising skeptic\u2014take the floor. <\/p>\n

“One reason they are building data centers if for artificial general intelligence, AGI. And that’s supposed to replace the human brain. … They want to create AGI to replace us. … And they’re destroying our environments just for their experimental sake. AI already works, but they’re trying to get to the next level.”<\/p>\n

Next level seems to be the one most of us want to avoid. If we could dial back to War Games- or Tron-era technology, I think most of us would adjust just fine. Especially if it meant we could also somehow manage to keep our coral reefs and Amazon Forest. Of…<\/p>\n

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