The Guardian
Texas governor threatens to penalize datacenters not obeying water laws
Republican Greg Abbott says datacenters must help ‘protect’ drought-prone state and disclose water use Greg Abbott , the Texas governor, has directed state regulators to penalize datacenters that fail to comply with state laws requiring…
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