After lying to little old ladies about “stopping data centers” for the last six months and then getting called out as powerless by me and others, unemployed socialist Clayton Tucker hastily came up with the “Ag impact Study” idea to “slow them down and gunk them up” in his words.
In other words, tie them up with frivolous bullshit and red tape.
Which is weird because NOW he promises us he’s AGAINST red tape!
We all know that in reality, Comrade Clayton LOVES red tape because he’s a socialist who wants the federal government to run the entire healthcare system, among other things. But I digress.
Anyways, he is under the false impression that his power to issue an “ag impact study” means he can do anything he wants and put everything and everyone through the Inquisition and shove a microscope up their ass while HE determines who passes and who fails. This is utter nonsense, of course.
Only from the mind of a spoiled, silver spoon pussy would this “logic” emerge….
“Kneel before Zod! Explain yourself and beg for my approval, and perhaps I shall let you pass!”
This moron actually thinks that an “AGRICULTURE impact study gives him power to make demands about property values, jobs and electricity bills. LOL. It’s scary how power-hungry this midget is. Truly scary. That’s what happens when the cool kids stuff you in a locker for four years of high school, I guess. You spend the rest of your life looking for retribution on anything and anyone.
Wow! Can the Ag Commissioner really arbitrarily screw anyone he wants with an ag impact study just to “gunk them up”?
No, the Texas Agriculture Commissioner does not have the unilateral authority to force an agricultural or economic study on an arbitrary individual, private property, or business.
The commissioner’s powers are strictly defined by the Texas Department of Agriculture and state statutes. While the TDA can conduct regulatory investigations regarding food safety, pesticide compliance, weights and measures, or agricultural pests (such as screwworm monitoring), forcing independent academic or economic studies on unconsenting private citizens generally requires legislative action, Attorney General involvement, or coordination with other regulatory bodies like the Public Utility Commission.
Poor Clayton. He thinks he’s going to be king! But in reality, he’s the same little powerless midget he’s been since birth. So sad.
Anyways, let’s go to Gemini to see what the ag impact studies REALLY do…
What an Ag Impact Study Examines
An effective study looks at the “upstream and downstream” impacts ofremoving land from agricultural productionor altering how a rural area operates. It typical addresses three core areas:
- Soil & Land Degradation: Assessing whether topsoil will be permanently damaged, compacted, or eroded during construction (e.g., when installing solar panels or pipelines).
- Water & Infrastructure Disruption: Evaluating how a project alters existing drainage patterns, cuts off livestock from water sources, or splits a contiguous property, rendering certain parcels unworkable for heavy farm equipment.
- Economic Ripple Effects: Measuring the loss of local agricultural revenue and its cascading effect on rural businesses like feed stores, equipment mechanics, and cotton gins.
The very first layer of the onion is “removing land from agricultural production”! So if it’s some shitty, useless scrubland out in the middle of nowhere (which most of this land is) it is not “productive agricultural land” and therefore is not being “removed from production.”
But let’s look at another angle which makes the data center lunatics look even more ridiculous.
Let’s say all these hyperscalers ARE going to barge in and take the BEST and most productive farmland. Right now, data centers cover maybe 10,000 acres of land in the entire state for the current 400 data centers. I’ll be EXTREMELY generous and allow that these evil hyperscalers are going to use another 200,000 acres! That’s over 300 square miles!! WOW! Sounds like a lot.
Here is the reality these dummies ignore: Texas currently has about 126 million acres of farmland and ranchland.
So if you do the math (Clayton and the hysterical data center loons do not understand math) then you are talking 200,000/127,000,000 – which is 0.16% of all productive land.
Bottom line: even if the evil tech bros barge into Texas, buy off EVERYBODY, ‘steal’ 200,000 acres of productive land to cover it with data centers, and give you the middle finger….that means that 99.84% of all Texas ag land is STILL in production.
What is very creepy to me is that percentage is VERY close to the 99.96% survival rate for Covid. The very same Covid virus that morons lost their minds over six years ago. Oddly, it’s the SAME group of morons (liberals and dumb old ladies) who are losing their minds over data centers for no good reason.
P.S. – the solar farms that Clayton cheered on for the last ten years currently cover over 500,000 acres – or nearly 800 square miles!! Unlike the data centers, many of those WERE placed on productive farmland!
Clayton Tucker: liar, dummy, hypocrite and scumbag all rolled into one shitty candidate.