What the governor-elect of Texas, at the epicenter of the AI-trade blowup, is now saying about data centers

MarketWatch · Jules Rimmer · 2026-11-06 10:20 UTC

Hinojosa says legislation has to be passed before she’d favor ending any moratorium

Hinojosa says legislation has to be passed before she’d favor ending any moratorium

The politician most associated with the implosion of the artificial-intelligence trade insists she is not resolutely against data-center construction — but just not now.

“I’m not ruling data centers out. It’s not that I hate data centers. We just need to stop what we are doing until we have protections for Texans,” Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa said in an interview with CNN on Thursday.

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