Dr. Nimesh Patel stands in front of his Quality Urgent Care Clinic on State Highway 46 in Seguin. He can’t open the clinic because his water supplier says it is currently at capacity. Jerry Lara / San Antonio Express-News March 16, 2023|Updated March 31, 2023 10:19 a.m. SEGUIN — Dr. Nimesh Patel operates five Quality Urgent Care clinics in the San Antonio area, but he’s been stymied in opening a sixth in Seguin. It’s not because he lacks money to operate it or workers to st

October 28, 2025 By Kim Johnson Wilson County News Stockdale-area resident Cody Little addresses Wilson County commissioners Oct. 27 on the need to oppose Springs Hill Special Utility District’s request to pump water out of Wilson County for use in neighboring Guadalupe County. KIM JOHNSON/Wilson County News [Video below] Wilson County officials have gone on record to join county residents in opposition to a plan to export water from the county. Commissioners met Oct. 27 and

By Kim Johnson Wilson County News Evergreen Underground Water Conservation District General Manager Aarin Teague speaks to Wilson County community members Nov. 6 about the well permitting process, after a request by Springs Hill Special Utility District for pumping water from Wilson County to sell for use in Guadalupe County. KIM JOHNSON/Wilson County News Stockdale residents continue to be concerned about water, with a capacity crowd attending a town hall meeting Nov. 6 in h

The explosion of AI across every industry has seen hundreds of water- and power-hungry server farms sprout up across the US. Already, one-third of the world's internet traffic flows through data centers in just one US state: Virginia. However, until now, there has been no official record of the number of data centers in America, who owns them, or how much electricity they consume. In an exclusive deep dive into the industry, Business Insider reporters cracked the code and, fo

Render of Rowan's campus at full build-out – Rowan Digital Infrastructure US data center firm Rowan Digital Infrastructure has broken ground on a new data center project in Texas. The company this week announced that it is beginning construction on the Cinco data center campus, a 300MW hyperscale project outside San Antonio, Texas. Located in Medina County and served by utility AEP, the 440-acre site is expected to be fully operational in 2027. On its website, Rowan says an i

y Jasmine Lotts Published: Dec. 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM CST WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A proposed $10 billion data center near Elm Mott has prompted Lacy Lakeview residents to organize opposition to the project. The data center would sit on 520 acres of farmland and specialize in artificial intelligence. Residents say they don’t want the area around Taylor Lane disturbed. Infrakey purchased the farmland in June, but some residents say they were left in the dark about the project. A pet

By Hannah Beckler , Rosemarie Ho , Narimes Parakul , Dakin Campbell , and Ellen Thomas Jun 17, 2025 Add us on Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars building data centers, racing to power an AI revolution they say will bring broad benefits and enormous profits. The actual price, though, has never been fully measured. So a team of Business Insider reporters and editors set out to find the true cost of the US data center boom — in water, power, pollution, a

BY Rachel Draper November 04, 2025 Wilson County News Wilson County may be home to an AI data center in the near future. A renewable energy and data infrastructure project — called Misae Energy Hub — is aimed to be established on 2,742 acres near Stockdale, through a company called Misae Investments. The company’s website describes their expertise as developing “utility-scale solar parks, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), and next-generation data centers” and “creating i

Image courtesy of MSB Global. SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas ( KETK ) – The former owners of the land where a massive AI datacenter campus is planned to built in Sulphur Springs are being sued by the city for trying to stop part of the datacenter project. 30 AI datacenters to be built at Sulphur Springs campus The lawsuit comes after the Vistra Corporation, parent company of Luminant Mining Company, issued a cease and desist letter to the city on Sept. 30. They sent the letter after