James Talarico calls for more data center accountability

Name: James Talarico calls for more data center accountability
Uploaded: 2026-07-24T21:00:00.000Z
Duration: 1 min 11 s
Description: Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico announced plans in Texas to increase accountability for data center developers. His proposals include banning and repealing tax breaks for AI companies building data centers, and requiring them to cover their own electricity and water infrastructure costs to prevent them from being passed on to Texans.

News Clip1:11Courier Texas·TX·7/24/2026

Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico announced plans in Texas to increase accountability for data center developers. His proposals include banning and repealing tax breaks for AI companies building data centers, and requiring them to cover their own electricity and water infrastructure costs to prevent them from being passed on to Texans.

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Gov: Texas State Government

Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico announced plans to hold data center developers accountable in Texas during a press conference on Wednesday. Talarico wants to ban tax breaks for AI companies to build data centers, repeal existing tax breaks, protect Texas water, and require Big AI to pay for their own electric and water infrastructure so that costs are no longer passed on to Texans.