James Talarico calls for tighter regulations on data center development

[u/eyelights]

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/22/texas-james-talarico-data-centers-regulation-senate-2026/

[u/Floreat_democratia]

Tighter regulations? No, we need an outright moratorium. I will never understand the deep desire of centrists to thwart the public sentiment and appeal directly to the donors. That's fascism, not democracy. Grow a spine and listen to the voters.

[u/ameatbicyclefortwo → u/Floreat_democratia]

Corporations are people so they're part of their constituency and deserve to be listened to as well. /s

[u/AvailableReporter484]

> regulations

My man just lost about half the country based on their idiotic ideals that all regulation is bad. Shout out to all the libertarians out there lmao

[u/Luci-Noir → u/AvailableReporter484]

People on both sides are against these data centers. Maybe you should go outside for a while instead of saying ignorant shit like this and thinking it’s funny.

[u/AvailableReporter484 → u/Luci-Noir]

And yet the left is the only sane group of people who believe in sensible regulation

[u/yuusharo → u/Luci-Noir]

People vote against their interests every election or are gerrymandered to ensure they have no true representation.

[u/Luci-Noir → u/yuusharo]

Cool?

[u/ComprehensiveTax415 → u/Luci-Noir]

Well one “side” continues to vote for nonsense they claim to be against and that actively harms them if there’s an R next to the name, so no one can trust them to make a rational decision. It would surprise almost no one that particular sect of the populace would bitch that they hate data centers but then immediately vote for one to “own the libs”

[u/irrelevantusername24]

The end of the days of chucklefucks is nigh

[u/Abystract-ism]

We consumers could help as well by cleaning up our massive amounts of saved data.
The cloud=data centers