What’s happening to Texas?

If this is happening in Texas, it's worse in every other state.

(picture posted by Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller on his Facebook)

Outgoing Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has gone ‘scorched earth’ on his own Republican Party.

And apparently, the major public criticism is working. The Governor has paused the approval of new data center projects until an audit can be done, if those companies are trying to hook up to the Texas power grid.

If you want to see how strong the anti AI Data Center movement is in the United States, look no further than Texas.

Texas is expected to become the state with the most data centers, surpassing Virginia at some point in the near future. The state is industry friendly, pro-business, and has an environment of little regulation.

It should be a tech baron’s paradise, but it’s turning into a nightmare. And this is why it’s so important to focus on what is going on in Texas, to get a sense of future.

Not only are many Texas politicians in danger of getting voted out of office because they supported AI Data Centers, but data centers are even causing internal conflicts within the parties themselves, even among high-ranking party leaders.

As far as Sid Miller’s concerned, he has lost his party’s nomination. The longtime statewide official is now free to say what he wants, when he wants, and he is exercising that right.

Miller’s main target has been AI Data Centers and Governor Greg Abbott, who just months from his own re-election fight, has now flip flopped his position from saying, “Texas is the epicenter of AI development, to “We must prohibit them from building AI data centers in rural Texas neighborhoods.”

In an interview with Houston based KHOU, Miller said “this is bipartisan. Nobody wants the grid to go down. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat, or a Republican. No one wants to be out of water.”

Miller said he’s the only statewide Republican that’s being vocal on data centers.

The Ag Commissioner even held a town hall about data centers with the Democratic Candidate for Ag Commissioner Clayton Tucker.

“If Republicans don’t come around and defend the people of Texas, we’re going to lose a lot of elections in November,” he said, “simply because of this issue.”

Then Miller hits at the heart of why AI Data Centers are being planned and approved so quickly around the country: money.

“The problem is a lot of these politicians are in the pockets of these data centers. They’re very hefty campaign donors.”

He was then asked if the governor was putting ‘big tech’ ahead of Texas farmers. “When you take millions and millions of dollars from big tech data centers to fund your campaign, you’re beholden to them. That’s why I call on Governor Abbott if he’s serious, give that money back.”

Miller said, “if you really want to convince the people that you’re ‘for the people’ and not the ‘big tech data centers,’ give the campaign contributions back. Let’s put your money where your mouth is.

Based on the many messages/comments I’ve received on social media about this, I don’t believe most Texans are buying what Abbott is selling.

Here’s my question.

If the second longest serving governor in a majority Republican state is in trouble this November for supporting AI Data Centers, what elected official in the United States isn't in trouble?