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Articles by Greg Harman
Our wee one has been home sick from school all week. And now the fever has jumped the host. But the joy and optimism unleashed this week is undiminished. Since we’ve been reading y’all’s socials we know we’re not alone in this: just waking up these last few days has been a pleasure. Yes, the crime family is digging in atop their desired ballroom bunker, now helmed by new chief of staff Stephen Miller, but the landscape across the nation shifted in remarkable ways.
The Big Bend Looms Large in 'The End of Nowhere,' a Whirlwind Study of Grief
Children represent the very best of us. In life, and often in film, a newborn represents an invitation to improve oneself by better preparing their way. Although children may also be cruelly twisted into extensions of our own impossible expectations and disappointments, one thing they can never be is a neutral artifact. On the highway of life, these supposedly helpless bundles of joy hold a veritable tire iron over us as they both haunt us from the past while tugging from our futures.
Will People Have a Say on Data Centers Under San Antonio’s Evolving Regulations?
Full event video from Deceleration. Follow Deceleration on YouTube. Dozens of residents filled a meeting room at Northwest Vista College's Cypress Campus Center on Tuesday evening for a town hall on data center development, hosted by the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance and Public Citizen Texas.
Abbott Wants Your Utility—Deregulation, Billionaires, & City Power in Texas
Governor Abbott promised lower bills without showing his work. So we asked researchers, organizers, and city leaders for the full story. Follow Deceleration on YouTube. Or subscribe directly via RSS feed Click above to enjoy the Deceleration Podcast. Or join us at Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Amazon Music, Goodpods, or a dozen other platforms. Governor Greg Abbott wants to deregulate Texas city-owned utilities and hand their markets over to private shareholders.
'March Will Not End Tomorrow': San Antonio Immigration Protest Resists New ICE Facility
On Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, hundreds of San Antonio residents marched in East San Antonio against a massive proposed ICE detention center now in development. After a two-mile march from S.J. Davis Middle School, they gathered outside a 640,000-square-foot warehouse off Loop 410 to sing and pray.
Abbott's Deregulation Threat Won't Cut Rates—But Could Spur Change from the Grassroots
Research and recent reporting suggest Gov. Greg Abbott's plan to force Texas's city-owned utilities into the deregulated market is unlikely to lower anyone's power bill. What it would definitely do is strip cities of a major source of revenue, money Abbott's campaign brands a city "slush fund." The campaign promises San Antonio households would save 13 percent on their bills—but no data to back up the claim.
Untangling Abbott's Deregulation Threat: Speaking with the Author of 'Brokers of Power'
In this episode, we speak with researcher Conor Harrison, author of 'Brokers of Power,' who spent years embedded in electricity finance conferences, tracking how Wall Street has taken over the power grid. Follow Deceleration on YouTube. Not everyone is treating Texas Governor Greg Abbott's threat to forcibly break up the state's dozens of remaining city-owned utilities seriously. Yet. This is the heat of campaign season. Polls show the three-term governor's competitor, Texas state Rep.
VIDEO: 'Prosecute This ICE Officer': How Cities Like Austin Can Help Stop ICE Violence
"I've seen enough to know this is a crime. ... To me it's an open and shut criminal prosecution, attempted murder." — Mike Siegel, Austin City Council (D7), speaking with ICE Watch correspondent Roxana Rojas. Follow Deceleration on YouTube. Austin City Councilmember Mike Siegel (D7) was the first elected official on the scene last Sunday after the shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez by an ICE agent. One of his first responses was to start collecting evidence for local prosecutors.
Did the Border Wall Just Break on Tiny San Ygnacio's Two-Acre Birding Sanctuary?
Follow Deceleration on YouTube. Click above to enjoy the Deceleration Podcast. Or join us at Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Amazon Music, Goodpods, or a dozen other platforms. Elsa Hull was arrested twice this summer defending a roughly two-acre bird sanctuary on the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo from border wall construction.
'The Practice of Hope': Re-Sanctifying Space in a City Under Deportation Siege
For centuries stone sanctuaries illuminated by sunlight flowing through stained glass have served as wombs of reflection and safety. For some. For many Native peoples across the Americas these centers of Christian faith have often been engines of displacement, forced conversion, kidnapping, and genocide.
'Days Without Power': Sudden Storm Tears Across San Antonio, Exposing Entrenched Vulnerabilities
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VIDEO: Big Bend Border Wall Emergency Hearing & Rally in San Antonio, Texas
Last week, Lipan Apache tribal members, and representatives of People of La Junta for Preservation and Far Flung Adventures, an outdoor and rafting company based in Terlingua, Texas, walked into a federal courthouse in San Antonio demanding an end to road building through Big Bend National Park—ostensibly for border barriers, service roads, and enhanced security infrastructure. Highlights from Big Bend Border Wall rally in San Antonio, Texas. Follow Deceleration on YouTube.
Data Center Moratorium Proposal Squeaks Forward in San Antonio
Fort Worth, Texas, is considered one of the most conservative large cities in the United States. As crypto and AI were being embraced by the Republican Party (ultimately to Trump's personal benefit), this North Texas city's elected officials followed right along: putting a mini crypto mine right in its city hall.
Data Centers Generating 'Heat Islands,' Compounding the Hazards of Rising Global Temps
112 Degrees?! Deceleration investigation supports findings from two studies into data center heat islands, measuring downwind temps from a major data center complex at six degrees higher than upwind areas.
Protestors Call for Shutting Down ICE’s New East San Antonio Detention Center—Before it Opens
On Saturday, dozens of San Antonio residents gathered outside a massive San Antonio warehouse being converted into a detention center that is expected to hold as many as 1,500 people. Banners and posters were held aloft decrying the continued expansion of the federal deportation industrial complex.
Data Centers Are Building Power Plants Near Neighborhoods—That May Play Into Some South San Antonio Ambitions
The intensive power and water demands of AI-driven data centers are surging across the United States. In some areas the impact is apparently negligible. Water impacts, though egregious in many cases, can be almost imperceptible. But when it’s bad, it’s really, really bad. Nearly half of all water consumption in population-15,000-population Dalles City, Oregon, for instance, went down the pipes of Google data centers last year, even as residents brace for their water bills to double.
CPS Energy Board Unravels its Climate Commitments as Data Center Power Demands Grow
In 2019, San Antonio’s City Council and the trustees of the City-owned CPS Energy committed to zeroing out local climate pollution by 2050, with reductions milestones along the way. But after a few years of progress, those overall emissions started trending back upward, according to data released late last year.
San Antonio Data Center Meeting to Explore Possible Regulation Through Zoning
Late last month, dozens of area residents lined up behind a mic on San Antonio’s far west side expressing outrage that a massive new data center was being constructed blocks away—before residents were even consulted. In the course of the meeting, they learned the facility with dozens of diesel generators and planned gas-fired power plant was actually already in operation.
Dow Wants to Lead a Texas Nuclear Resurgence—and Data Centers Aren't Far Behind
SEADRIFT, Texas—Dow is hoping to convert its sprawling plastics and packaging materials plant here from gas-fired power to a complex of four modular nuclear reactors. The project, a partnership between Dow and X-energy, is in the vanguard of a wave of new interest and applications for nuclear power projects the state.
'People's Conference on Nuclear Power Reactors' Convening in Seadrift, Texas
Four modular nuclear reactors could soon power the Dow facility at Seadrift, Texas, all but eliminating a major source of pollution at the notorious facility. No, not the chronic slurry of plastic pellets that have been filling the bay and coating the shoreline for years, the subject of a recent state lawsuit. Not that pollution.
Data Centers Bringing Major New Pollution Sources to San Antonio’s West Side
Editor's Note: A version of this story was previously published in the Water & Power newsletter. Subscribe to all of Deceleration's newsletters here. Close to 100 anxious area residents gathered a week and a half ago inside a plush Marriott hotel meeting room a short hike from SeaWorld on San Antonio’s Far West Side to voice their concern about a massive AI data center going up blocks away.
'Is This Our Future?' San Antonio Data Center Hearing Smacks of Trolling
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2025's Hill County Floods Are Our State's New 'Whiplash Weather.' There Will be More.
Welcome to Water and Power, a monthly newsletter about the elements of our survival—and those who seek to profit from them. Water & Power highlights reporting found at Deceleration, but also offers links to critical stories from other publications, prepares you to engage on these issues with notices of events around the bend, and always offers unique content exclusively for newsletter subscribers. If you know someone who would appreciate this research and analysis, pass it along.
Border Walls & ‘Murder Buoys’: Emerging Risks Facing One of the Americas' Great Rivers—and Those Who Call Her Home
When President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on the country’s southern border in 2019, usurping the role of Congress, some argued at the time, the folks living in the region couldn’t have known what it would mean for their lives and livelihoods. The action authorized the movement of massive amounts of money for border wall construction, some of which had already begun under President Obama.
Inmates are Cooking in the Texas Prison System. Are Reforms Coming at Last?
Deceleration speaks with Amite Dominick, founder & president of Texas Prisons Community Advocates. Click above to enjoy the Deceleration Podcast. Or join us at Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Amazon Music, Goodpods, or a dozen other platforms. Texas is getting hotter—nearly four degrees hotter in just the last few decades. The last 10 years all rank among the hottest years ever on the planet, with residents forced to navigate sometimes months upon months of 100-plus-degree days.
'Come In the Right Way!' — The U.S. Betrayal of Those Who Tried
ICE agents aim for easy pickings: like stealing children from school bus stops in San Antonio, Texas. Children who, not incidentally, are legal residents of the United States with their protected status granted by U.S. courts. ICE is also chaining pregnant woman to hospital beds.
Texas Cities Ramping Up Strategies to Battle Rising Heat
Like most of their neighbors across the planet, Texas residents are on voyage into the sizzling unknown. In recent decades, heat and humidity across the state have risen steadily as the heat-trapping gases pumped out by fossil fuel combustion continue to clog the atmosphere.
Project Matador: Fermi's 'Hyperscale' Data Center Complex Hitting Resistance in the Texas Panhandle
Click above to enjoy the Deceleration Podcast. Or join us at Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Amazon Music, Goodpods, or a dozen other platforms. “Project Matador” outside of Amarillo, Texas, pairs Fermi America and the Texas Tech University System seeking a pod of “hyperscale” data centers over 6,000 acres across a privately owned and operated electric grid.
Get Ready for a 'Long Hell' of a Summer, National Weather Service Official Warns
The last several years have been brutal, advancing a trend seen the world over: rising heat, stronger storms, and punishing extended drought. And while water worries have understandably captured headlines of late, life-threatening extreme heat will soon be bearing down again across Texas. If recent trends are any guide, some of the hottest temperatures will likely be felt by residents of the Rio Grande Valley, where substandard housing and high poverty put lives at particular risk.
‘Unify to Dilley’ Inspires Hundreds to Converge Outside CoreCivic's Family Concentration Camp
Blue Bunny Brigade founder Chriselda Vera outside of CoreCivic's family detention center on Saturday. Image: Greg Harman Published: April 20, 2026, 6:49 pm Last updated: April 20, 2026, 7:11 pm | {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to X {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Bluesky {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Facebook {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to LinkedIn {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share by email Click play to view a 30-minute summary of the 'Unify to Dilley' day of action.
After the Hunger Strike, March on Dilley, Climate Conflict & Collaboration, y Más
A roundup of Deceleration headlines from the week. Published: April 18, 2026, 7:19 am {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to X {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Bluesky {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Facebook {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to LinkedIn {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share by email This post is for subscribers only
Collaboration in a Time of Climate Crisis—It's Complicated
Governmental institutions are being hollowed out and globally significant research centers shuttered. Much of the private sector has been cowed into obedience by and to a rising authoritarian regime. Funding flows toward climate-dedicated nonprofits have been dramatically reduced.
Forest Service Torched, Earth Day Sermon, Valero Refinery Explosion, y Más
A roundup of Deceleration headlines from the week. Published: April 11, 2026, 10:19 am Last updated: April 11, 2026, 10:21 am {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to X {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Bluesky {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Facebook {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to LinkedIn {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share by email This post is for subscribers only
Critical Texas Data Center Fights Happening Right Now
đ This is Deceleration's second installment about the recent Texas Data Center Rebellion convening in San Antonio, Texas. See Part One. Inside the chambers of a Westside San Antonio church they gathered. They learned about one anotherâs fights against data centers. Some of the facilities discussed were on the smaller side, some globally significant.
Gulf Oil Companies Free to Exterminate, Slashing Social Safety, Data Center Rebellion, y Más
A roundup of Deceleration headlines from the week. Published: April 05, 2026, 10:20 am Last updated: April 05, 2026, 10:22 am {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to X {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Bluesky {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Facebook {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to LinkedIn {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share by email This post is for subscribers only
The Texas Data Center Rebellion Has Begun
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8 Million Strong: 'No Kings' Turnout Breaks All Past Protest Records
Click play above for Deceleration's 12-minute recap of 'No Kings' in San Antonio. On Saturday, millions of people across the United States (and the rest of the world) rose up against “kings” in the United States, shorthand for the chronic oversteps and abuses of a President Donald Trump working to crush dissent and consolidate power. Signs weaving through downtown San Antonio decried the billionaire class. Full-throated chants echoed against the U.S./Israel war on Iran.
No Kings Today!
Welcome to Deceleration In Depth, where we are growing solutions for an overheating world. We highlight the latest global, national, and regional developments in climate and environmental justice to better inform local action. Deceleration is rooted in San Antonio and the South Texas bioregion but our concerns and enthusiasm are broad. Pitch us your story idea at editor@deceleration.news.
Data Center Watch: Lessons from a San Marcos Coalition's Defeat of an AI Data Center
Click to view Todos Agua session two: 'Water, Urbanization, & Environmental Justice,' dedicated to the subject of data centers. With communities across the state slogging through deep drought and rising heat, both products of our chronic combustion of polluting fossil fuels, Deceleration in honored to parter with Esperanza Peace & Justice Center in San Antonio in this year’s Todos Agua, a week-long reflection dedicated to restoring a right relationship with water.
You're Invited: Open Story Planning Call on Thursday
Deceleration's First Planning Call of 2026 will help develop our next tranche of stories and invite in ideas from leading supporters like you! Join Us Thursday! Published: March 23, 2026, 1:06 pm {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to X {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Bluesky {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Facebook {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to LinkedIn {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share by email This post is for subscribers on theAlly, Decelerant and Decelerent tiers only
'Todos Agua': Cultivating a Right Relationship with Water—and Grandmother Earth
Welcome to Deceleration In Depth, where we are growing solutions for an overheating world. We highlight the latest global, national, and regional developments in climate and environmental justice to better inform local action. Deceleration is rooted in San Antonio and the South Texas bioregion but our concerns and enthusiasm are broad. Pitch us your story idea at editor@deceleration.news.
Texas Data Center Boom + Todos Agua + Women Leading Drive to Abolish ICE
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Intl Women's Day March, Ousting Stephen Miller, Corpus Christi Dries Up, y Más
Your weekly news and analysis update from Deceleration. Published: March 14, 2026, 8:24 am {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to X {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Bluesky {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Facebook {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to LinkedIn {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share by email This post is for subscribers only
Revolutionary Cry Rises at San Antonio's 36th Annual International Women's Day Rally & March
International Women's Day, San Antonio, Texas. Deceleration Video. The 36th annual International Women's Day rally and march wound through the rainy streets of San Antonio, Texas, on Sunday with revolutionary cries decrying imperialism, colonialism, racism, and patriarchy. Signs lambasted the illegal war on Iran being waged by Israel and the United States, where a 'double tap' strike killed nearly 200, mostly school girls, and more than 100,000 have been displaced.
Hidden Heat Deaths, Tunes to Smash Fascism, Round Rock Data Centers, Black Futures, y Más
Your weekly news and analysis update from Deceleration. Published: February 28, 2026, 7:18 am {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to X {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Bluesky {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Facebook {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to LinkedIn {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share by email This post is for subscribers only
Thousands of Heat-Related Deaths Go Uncounted in Texas Each Year, New Research Finds
Texas officials are undercounting heat-related deaths every year, missing thousands of deaths, according to a trio of models run by a Texas A&M-based climate scientist—deaths that may otherwise motivate policymakers to respond to a long neglected (and accelerating) public health crisis.
Round Rock Texas Approves Ninth Data Center Over Strong Community Resistance
Earlier this month, Round Rock City Council approved a rezoning request to allow Skybox Data Centers to become the ninth data center in this city just north of Austin. The vote paves the way for Skybox to begin construction on their third facility in the region, adding to similar facilities in nearby Pflugerville and Hutto.
Billionaires...or the Earth's Billions? + Student ICE March, SAWS Rates, Data Centers, y Más
Your weekly news and analysis update from Deceleration. Published: February 21, 2026, 8:11 am {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to X {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Bluesky {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to Facebook {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share to LinkedIn {shareOpen = false}, 2000)"> Share by email This post is for subscribers only
Our Planet's Billions-Or the Profiting Petro Elite? (You Can't Choose Both)
Shortly after Jessica Witzel collapsed and died on a Five Points area sidewalk her body temperature was logged at a dizzying 126 degrees Fahrenheit. The sidewalk on that 100-plus-degree day was almost certainly even hotter than that. Thought disputed by the local medical examiner—who steadfastly refuses to label essentially any deaths unattended by an ER doctor as heat-related—Witzel died in the heat and from the heat.
SAWS Rate Hikes are Coming. How Fair is their Rate Structure?
A serious rate hike may be coming down the pipe for San Antonio-area water users. Presented to members of City Council earlier this month, the proposed increases would raise customer rates year-over-year for three years. Ultimately, bills would balloon more than 30 percent, according to News4SA. This was not received well by Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and Council. CPS Energy, meanwhile, is also expected to line up for an increase if not this year, then next.
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