Amazon’s 3,000-acre data center in Wharton County, Texas moves forward despite Abbott’s data center “ban”
An hour south of Houston, a 3,000-acre digital fortress is rising from farmland while the governor’s much-publicized data center ban dominates headlines. Regulators have approved Amazon’s campus near Boling in Wharton County, even though Gov. Greg Abbott announced his crackdown on Sept. 21. The order is a pause on new state permits, not a prohibition, and it landed after Amazon’s local groundwater permits were already issued.
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