# As Texas Becomes the Epicenter for Data Center Boom, Political Fault Lines Emerge w/ Candice Bernd (G&R 503) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/as-texas-becomes-the-epicenter-for-data-center-boom-political-fault-lines-emerge-w-candice-bernd-g-r-503 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/as-texas-becomes-the-epicenter-for-data-center-boom-political-fault-lines-emerge-w-candice-bernd-g-r-503.md Podcast: [Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547) Published: 2026-06-16T10:39:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenandred/episodes/As-Texas-Becomes-the-Epicenter-for-Data-Center-Boom--Political-Fault-Lines-Emerge-w-Candice-Bernd-GR-503-e3kqs7o Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/121515704/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-15%2F3503ec52-9861-7165-597b-3587d6372f93.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/as-texas-becomes-the-epicenter-for-data-center-boom-political-fault-lines-emerge-w-candice-bernd-g-r-503 Duration seconds: 2707 ## Resource πŸŽ‰ Independent media is more vital than ever. Support Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. In our latest, we dive deep into the bitcoin mine and AI data center boom in Texas and the emerging faultlines in the states politics. We discuss with Texas Observer special correspondent Candice Bernd (candicebernd.bsky.social). Guest Bio// Candice Bernd is a special investigative correspondent for the Texas Observer covering the climate and ecological crises. She is a freelance journalist based in Austin whose work has also appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, In These Times, Salon, Truthout, and Earth Island Journal. She’s received awards from the San Francisco Press Club, the Fort Worth chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Native American Journalists Association, and the Dallas Peace and Justice Center. She is the author of the forthcoming Blood, Soil, and Oil: Far-Right Acceleration in the Age of Climate Crisis. ------------------------------- Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody πŸ”— Links πŸ“š Last Year, a Corpus Christi Cryptomine Guzzled over 11 Million Gallons. Now, Its Water Usage Is Being Kept Secret. (https://bit.ly/4et5leA) πŸ”— Data Center Boom Exposes GOP Faultlines over Local Control (https://bit.ly/4eFEBbX) 🌐 Candice's website: https://candicequestions.com/ πŸ’š Support the Green and Red Podcast πŸŽ‰ Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast β˜• One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR πŸŽ™οΈ Follow Green and Red πŸ”— Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org 🌍 Our Networks 🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org πŸ“’ Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapita… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/as-texas-becomes-the-epicenter-for-data-center-boom-political-fault-lines-emerge-w-candice-bernd-g-r-503/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/as-texas-becomes-the-epicenter-for-data-center-boom-political-fault-lines-emerge-w-candice-bernd-g-r-503.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.