It ain’t what you think, my dear neighbors. Trouble is, it’s already here.
Just ask 2 Texans getting screwed right now- Brian and Laura Crawford. Their family home is a beautiful 118-acre “paradise” along the Paluxy River Valley, where they take care of Little Joe and Hoss, two large donkeys, a bunch pf chickens and a herd of African antelope that live on the property they bought in Hood County about 10 years ago.
Here’s how AI (artificial intelligence) describes Hood County: “The winding Brazos River and the Paluxy River frame the county…creating lush river valleys…Rising 1,230 feet above sea level, Comanche Peak is the county’s highest point…with sweeping views of the surrounding Hood County Mountains.”
Here’s how AI is destroying that: Just 600 yards from the Crawford’s home in Hood County, the kind that Texans work a lifetime to have, a 2,100acre data processing center will soon transform the scenic nature of their paradise into a noisy industrial compound filled with computers and servers. The Lufkin Daily News reports this planned tech project will ultimately be six times the size of the University of Texas in Austin and there’s “nothing the little town can do to stop it.”
How would you like to wake up to that ghastly sight every morning? I get sick thinking about a monstrosity like that blocking my wonderful view of the glorious Texas hills across the valley from my home on Frontier Lane, just off Polly Peak road.
But developers are planning to put 8 of these water guzzling data process centers across more than 7,000 acres in a 12 square mile area in Hood County, something its 62,000 residents did not ask for, much less dream would ever happen. Each one of these centers can, and will, use 3 gigawatts of electricity every day.
The Texas Tribune reports that’s enough electricity to power 3 million homes!
The average data processing center being built in Texas uses about 300,000 gallons of water every day, with some of the larger ones using as much as 550,000 gallons a day, according to the Texas Observer this past February.
The 8 data centers planned for Hood County will use 24 gigawatts of electricity every day plus the way they’ll destroy the beauty of that historical, 675,000-acre county.
How long till these monsters get to Bandera County?
Tech companies want to build their plants in Texas “because they offer exactly what hyperscale and edge data center operators need: cheap land, low taxes, abundant power, and wide-open spaces.”
Why do they want land? “A hyperscale data center can require anywhere from 100 to 300 acres.”
Check out the links below, you all. They’ve got all the facts about this terrible Texas land grab facing areas like Bandera. They’ll stand your hair on end.
• texastribune.org/2026/06/02/ texas-data-centers-hoodcounty- local-control-ruralwater- power/
• cleanview.co/data-centers/texas
• texasobserver.org/texas-aidata- centers-water-usageregulation/
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