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New @houstonchronicle.com story explores the growing push to reuse "produced water" from oilfields for data center cooling — a proposal that supporters say could help address both Texas' water shortages and the oil industry's mounting wastewater disposal problem.

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Read @rebekahfward.bsky.social and @amandadrane.bsky.social's reporting: www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...

houstonchronicle.comData centers need water. Texas oil companies think they have the solution.Texas’ AI boom is colliding with an oil industry wastewater crisis. State leaders and industry increasingly see each problem as the solution to the other.