LIV Meeting: The Data Center Dance
Mon, Apr 13
|Zoom
This event is an open meeting -- for members and non-members. Disclosure: The image provided is from ChatGPT.
Time & Location
Apr 13, 2026, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Zoom
Guests
About the event
This topic is about data centers across Texas and the pushback from local communities, with local officials joining them or joining with the ill-regulated industry.
For this event, please review articles. We will also bring you up-to-date with reports of the hearing on data centers held in the morning of April 9.
We Suggest You Review these articles:
• Quorum Report's review of the April 9, 2026 hearing of the Texas House State Affairs Committee, in short, a dog and pony show by the industry with NO local officials asked to testify HERE.
• Austin Business Journal, December 24, 2024, coverage of first EdgeConneX Data Center in Bastrop County receiving tax abatements, LIV's Linda Curtis is quoted: HERE.
• Texas Tribune, April 8, 2026 Texas is giving data centers more than $1 billion in tax breaks each year," by Paul Cobler.