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Taylor Goldenstein and Emily Foxhall

While data centers boom in Texas, their plans stay shrouded in secrecy

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BELLS — Last year, Mason McCallister saw survey markers on a property near his home in a rural community about an hour north of Dallas. He suspected it might be for a new data center he’d heard about from a neighbor.

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