Texas House Speaker's Interim Studies: Water, AI, Border

0:00Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has unveiled priorities for the 2027 legislative session, focusing on critical issues like ground water shortages, the rise of AI data centers, and even exploring the idea of absorbing land from New Mexico. Several House committees receive marching orders to dive deep into water challenges, from scarcity and infrastructure to long-term management, building on last session's big investments amid ongoing droughts hitting places like Corpus Christi and Central Texas counties. Meanwhile, AI data centers are under scrutiny, too, with studies on their heavy water use, economic boosts, job needs, and effects on the power grid. As communities push back against the noisy, resource-hungry facilities, the most unusual charge goes to a new oversight committee, tasked with examining the Texas New Mexico border and the feasibility of contiguous. Counties there are joining Texas, an idea that gained traction after local succession talk in Leah County earlier this year. These interim studies set the stage for lawmakers to tackle effectiveness of past laws and

1:04align with Senate goals on property taxes and state, spending as Texas gears up for another round of big decisions, including managing 25 million residents and addressing 3% annual growth. I'm Cory with the story, that's your Dallas News Today update, AI powered and always on.