EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — As new data centers expand across the Borderland region and nationwide, public concerns usually focus on the potential strain to local water and energy supplies.
However, a national watchdog organization, Good Jobs First, is raising a different red flag when it comes to resource consumption. The organization believes government subsidies used to attract these hyperscale data centers — like the ones being built in Northeast El Paso (Meta) and Santa Teresa (Project Jupiter) — could actually be draining much-needed funding from public schools.
“Every dollar we subsidize a big tech company is a dollar we can’t put into public schools,” said Anthony Elmo, a public education defender with Good Jobs First…