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States are rolling out red carpets for data centers. But some lawmakers are pushing back

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States are rolling out red carpets for data centers, but some lawmakers are pushing back.

Many states are offering financial incentives worth tens of millions of dollars .

Some state lawmakers have contested the incentives in places where heavy influx of massive data centers has caused friction with neighboring communities.

Critics say data centers employ relatively few people and pack little long-term job-creation punch.

Texas lawmakers are wrestling with how to protect the state's electric grid from fast-growing data center demand.

Lawmakers still want to attract data centers, but a bill that would speed up direct hookups between data centers and power plants has provisions that are drawing protests from business groups.

Georgia lawmakers are debating a similar bill.

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