Texas officials flag AI data centers as a water-and-grid crisis with almost no county oversight.

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Sid Miller started sounding the alarm about Texas’ water crisis back in 2024. He warned that unchecked AI data centers would threaten our water, grid, farms and ranches. Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Sid Miller: I'm very worried about the data centers. We're going way too fast. The reason they come to Texas, our counties have no oversight ability so they can just do whatever.

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Analyst rationale

Physical infrastructure is now an AI-safety surface: energy, water, and food systems absorb the training/inference load. This is public-impact infrastructure, not a model-behavior story.