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How One Texas County Struck a Deal With Its Data Centers
When Scooter Mangold first heard how much water Microsoft’s data center engineers were requesting from his Central Texas water company, he didn’t just say no. “I told them they’d lost their minds,” Mangold told me, his face breaking into a grin under a white lampshade mustache. His company, Yancey Water Supply, could have probably made it work, he admitted, but that would have dramatically reduced the available groundwater for everyone else in the slice of Medina County it serves, including his own kids and grandkids. It could have been another in a line of now-common stories: tiny, outlawyered rural area takes on multibillion-dollar corporation trying to build massive, loud, resource-hungry data center in the community.Instead, Mangold, one of the dozen or so water providers in…The post How One Texas County Struck a Deal With Its Data Centers appeared first on Texas Monthly.