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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Ellie Ashby, The Texas Tribune, and Chloe Landen, Religion News Service

“A deal with the devil”: Religion motivates data center opponents in Texas

Matt Long stood before the Granbury City Council at an April zoning meeting to oppose the influx of proposed data centers in Hood County, likening them to a spiritual abomination.

“I’d consider us a Christian city inside a Christian county,” said Long, a member of the county’s development commission who lives near Granbury. “As Christians, do we think that trading 2,100 acres of natural beauty for godless technological complexes is moving us closer to the creation, or further away?”

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