Texas Town Got a Data Center. Then Rent Exploded.
Diana Luna is running for Texas House District 71, where the Stargate data center landed and rents jumped $300 in six months. She never wanted to run.
Diana Luna is a data analyst, a mom, and an organizer from Abilene — the West Texas district where hyperscale AI data centers are now reshaping rent, water, and who gets to stay. She spent months trying to recruit somebody else for HD-71. She said no repeatedly. Then Wendy Davis drove out to have lunch with her.
In this Breaking the Meta interview, Diana walks through what happened to her hometown when the Stargate project arrived: data centers…
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