Greg Harman - Deceleration

CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow

Climate emissions have been growing in San Antonio, despite Council and utility pledges to drive them down. Monday's CPS Board action all but guarantees future targets will remain out of reach as Texas cooks.

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Jun 2026

CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow

San Antonio Data Center Meeting to Explore Possible Regulation Through Zoning

City of San Antonio's Development Services hosts its second meeting of a data center Stakeholder Discussion Group dedicated to industrial power use.

By Greg Harman

/ 23 Jun 2026

San Antonio Data Center Meeting to Explore Possible Regulation Through Zoning

Dow Wants to Lead a Texas Nuclear Resurgence—and Data Centers Aren't Far Behind

The risks long associated with the U.S.'s aging fleet of nuclear reactors continue with a new generation of "advanced" designs proposed for Texas data centers and plastics manufacturers, longtime critics warned the seaside Seadrift community.

By Greg Harman

/ 18 Jun 2026

Dow Wants to Lead a Texas Nuclear Resurgence—and Data Centers Aren't Far Behind

'People's Conference on Nuclear Power Reactors' Convening in Seadrift, Texas

Dow's plan to power production with modular nuclear reactors comes under community scrutiny this weekend.

By Greg Harman

/ 11 Jun 2026

'People's Conference on Nuclear Power Reactors' Convening in Seadrift, Texas

Data Centers Bringing Major New Pollution Sources to San Antonio’s West Side

Frustration marked public hearing for Vantage Data Center’s TX2 expansion plans at Highway 151 and Wiseman.

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Jun 2026

Data Centers Bringing Major New Pollution Sources to San Antonio’s West Side

'Is This Our Future?' San Antonio Data Center Hearing Smacks of Trolling by the State

Plus: Massive global data center study, Trump's fake oversight EO, accelerating surveillance of data center opposition, action opportunities, y más.

By Greg Harman

/ 7 Jun 2026

'Is This Our Future?' San Antonio Data Center Hearing Smacks of Trolling by the State

2025's Hill County Floods Are Our State's New 'Whiplash Weather.' There Will be More.

Rapid shifts from extreme drought to deadly floods is a feature, not a bug, in our new fossil-fuels modified climate. Here's what you need to know.

By Greg Harman

/ 23 May 2026

2025's Hill County Floods Are Our State's New 'Whiplash Weather.' There Will be More.

Border Walls & ‘Murder Buoys’: Emerging Risks Facing One of the Americas' Great Rivers—and Those Who Call Her Home

‘Every state a border state’ has shown the U.S. interior MAGA’s anti-immigrant furor, but on the actual southern boundary, border residents—and the Rio Grande they share—are bearing the fuller price of ever expanding militarization.

By Greg Harman

/ 19 May 2026

Border Walls & ‘Murder Buoys’: Emerging Risks Facing One of the Americas' Great Rivers—and Those Who Call Her Home

Inmates are Cooking Inside Texas Prisons. Are Reforms Coming at Last?

Deceleration speaks with Amite Dominick, founder & president of Texas Prisons Community Advocates, about efforts to force the state to install potentially life-saving air conditioning.

By Greg Harman

/ 15 May 2026

Inmates are Cooking Inside Texas Prisons. Are Reforms Coming at Last?

'Come In the Right Way!' — The U.S. Betrayal of Those Who Tried

'We are in a period of stark moral offense. Torture and death are hallmarks of the entire detention system today.'

By Greg Harman

/ 11 May 2026

'Come In the Right Way!' — The U.S. Betrayal of Those Who Tried

San Antonio Boosts its ‘Heat Resilience Playbook’ as Texas Cities Seek to Adapt to Rising Temps

Republican state leaders stripped cities of the ability to require water breaks for workers, but Texas cities are still fighting to create more habitable conditions for their residents as dangerous heatwaves continue to expand.

By Greg Harman

/ 4 May 2026

San Antonio Boosts its ‘Heat Resilience Playbook’ as Texas Cities Seek to Adapt to Rising Temps

Project Matador: Fermi's 'Hyperscale' Data Center Complex Hitting Resistance in the Texas Panhandle

Deceleration speaks with Kendra Seawright of Women's March about data center organizing strategies in rural Texas.

By Greg Harman

/ 24 Apr 2026

Project Matador: Fermi's 'Hyperscale' Data Center Complex Hitting Resistance in the Texas Panhandle