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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Eleanor Klibanoff, graphics by Apurva Mahajan

Fed up with data centers and Big Tech, rural Republican crossover could decide Democrats’ fate in Texas

NAVASOTA — Joie Miller moved to rural Grimes County to raise her daughter hunting, fishing and spending time with her grandparents on their 100-acre ranch. Then Elon Musk announced he was constructing the world’s largest building a little more than a mile from her in-laws’ property.

The Terafab semiconductor factory, which Musk has projected will be 50 times larger than the Pentagon, will produce computer chips for artificial intelligence. As construction kicked off, trucks rumbled past their property day and night. Big chunks of ash rained down.

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