AI Data Centers
We should not be paying to bring AI Data Centers to Texas. This is happening. These data centers have been given substantial tax incentives to build in Texas. Texas is projected to forgo roughly $3.2 billion in sales-tax revenue over the next two years because of tax exemptions for qualifying data centers, many of which are being built to support the rapidly growing demand for AI. That revenue will have to be paid by the taxpayers of Texas, instead of the data centers. The Texas biennium budget has ballooned from $187.5 billion in 2010 to $338.2 billion today. We, the…