“I saw Texas the other day sort of is against data centers,” Trump said in a nearly hourlong sit-down interview with Punchbowl News released Friday. This unprecedented growth could endanger the reliability and stability of the Texas electric grid,” Andrew Mahaleris said. The three-term governor’s Democratic opponent, Gina Hinojosa, has made greater oversight of data centers a key piece of her campaign. Trump went on to say that data centers are “tremendously important for the economics.” “For Texas to say no to data centers is a mistake in the sense that it could be bigger than oil,” he added.