{"id":189281,"date":"2026-02-20T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/texas-could-pass-virginia-as-worlds-top-data-center-market\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:55:07","slug":"texas-could-pass-virginia-as-worlds-top-data-center-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/texas-could-pass-virginia-as-worlds-top-data-center-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Could Pass Virginia as World\u2019s Top Data Center Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/texas-could-pass-virginia-as-worlds-top-data-center-market\">Texas Could Pass Virginia as World\u2019s Top Data Center Market<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/texas-could-pass-virginia-as-worlds-top-data-center-market\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/texas-could-pass-virginia-as-worlds-top-data-center-market<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-20 17:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texas is quickly becoming a top global data center market, projected to surpass Virginia by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>Northern Virginia, a long-time data center capital, is seeing developers relocate to Texas.<\/li>\n<li>Texas is attractive due to its business-friendly regulatory environment and substantial incentives.<\/li>\n<li>Texas offers abundant land and supports extensive renewable energy use, vital for data centers&#8217; power needs.<\/li>\n<li>Data centers require immense amounts of energy and water, influencing Texas energy demand and leading to water usage concerns.<\/li>\n<li>Many developers favor Texas due to a lack of zoning regulations, simplifying the approval process.<\/li>\n<li>Central Texas has emerged as a major hub for both existing and future data center projects.<\/li>\n<li>Data center projects are often met with local opposition due to environmental and resource concerns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Could Pass Virginia as World\u2019s Top Data Center Market https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/texas-could-pass-virginia-as-worlds-top-data-center-market Publish Date: 2026-02-20 17:44:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/6afb1f1\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/360x175+0+13\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fa9%2Fd4%2F3a2cb8064922aebb3b5c9e409cb7%2Fdata-center.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189283,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189281\/revisions\/189283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}