06/23/2026
Less than 2 hours left to speak out on data center water impacts TODAY
DATA CENTER ALERT! 2️⃣ HOURS LEFT TO ACT NOW!
The Natural Resources Commission of the Texas House of Representatives is holding a public hearing on data center water use and conservation TODAY June 23, beginning at 10 am until 8 pm. Electronically submitted public comments will be accepted all day until the hearing is adjourned. This is your chance to speak out against data centers and demand that the committee work toward a ban or moratorium on data centers in Texas.
IT’S QUICK AND EASY. Follow the instructions below to submit your comment:
1. Go to the public comment input form at https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c390
2. Complete the contact information form
3. Click on the pull down menu for “Bills and Topics” and select “Data Center Water Use and Conservation:
4. Type/Insert your commentary (3000 character limit) in the box provided for that purpose
5. Click “submit.”
SOME SUGGESTED BULLET POINTS TO INCLUDE
—Either a data center moratorium or complete ban in Texas is a common sense policy that protects Texans. It gives communities and their elected officials time to properly analyze proposals, invite public comment and feedback to local and county government officials to understand how it will affect the town/city/county.
—The legislature must require that data centers report their direct and indirect water and energy use to the Texas Water Development Board. Data centers report their usage is not included in the current 2027 water plan that will remain in place until 2032. Additional, data centers report their water use to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. This information must be made publicly available.
—The use of NDAs with public entities should be severely curtailed. Texans should be able to easily find out the basic facts of water and electricity consumption by data centers on an ongoing basis.
—Closed loop data centers or none. No exceptions. Instead of consuming millions of gallons daily, these systems circulate a fixed volume of liquid through cold plates and heat exchangers to reject heat to the outside air.
—The legislature should give countries the ability to increase their regulatory ability over data centers, especially in unincorporated parts of the counties, allowing for development moratoriums if needed until the state develops regulations about how data centers will operate in the future.
GET TYPING! YOU’VE GOT UNTIL 8 PM TO LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!!! Share if you commented and ideas for others to comment!
