Gov. Greg Abbott ordered a statewide audit of data centers Monday, directing regulators to review every project seeking to connect to the Texas power grid before it can move forward. But the state’s top agriculture official says the move is more politics than policy — and residents in Guadalupe County say they’re not convinced it changes anything for them.

A Council Consideration Request (CCR) that would determine regulatory measures needed to address the rapid growth of data centers in San Antonio will proceed to a special committee.

With data centers popping up across the state of Texas, including San Antonio, local power and water utilities are preparing.

District 6 council member Ric Galvan filed the city’s first Council Consideration Request (CCR) to examine the exponential growth of data centers in San Antonio.

All construction has been halted at the future site of a super-sized data center in Medina County after a worker died there this week.

Medina County is slated to become a hot spot for data centers, with a handful of nearly billion-dollar projects in development, county officials told KSAT.

Statisticians and demographers are sounding the alarm about threats to official data gathering in the U.S. They warn that funding for the federal statistical agencies is inadequate and measures in a House appropriations bill could undermine what Americans know about themselves.