How Do Data Centers Impact a Community?
Texas has set the standard for data centers: protect Texans’ safety and quality of life by minimizing impacts on neighboring property owners and communities, including noise mitigation, light controls, setbacks, traffic improvements, emergency response coordination, and other community protection measures.
The Texas Standard
Recently, Texas announced that all new data centers in the state must protect communities from disruption, including noise mitigation, light controls, and setbacks. Every project is now reviewed before it can move forward. This means neighborhoods are put first. That is Texas leadership.
Texas Leadership in Action
Major data center developers have said they will meet the new Texas standards, which includes minimizing impacts on surrounding neighborhoods.
How Texans Benefit
Data center developers are not only committing to reducing community impacts, investments are creating manufacturing jobs and new local revenue to fund first responders and hospitals.
Stand With the Texas Standard
If data centers want to build in Texas, they must Texans deserve data centers that protect quality of life, minimize impacts on neighborhoods., and invest in the communities they join. Add your name to show Texas leaders that Texans support these common sense standards.
