Texas at Capacity: An Analysis of Permitted High-Tech Facilities and Regional Water Stress.

This dataset maps the intersection of high-tech industrial growth and water scarcity in Texas by aggregating location data for semiconductor manufacturing and data center facilities from the EPA's Facility Registry Service. It integrates these facility locations with county-level water projection data from the Texas State Water Plan. A key component of the dataset is the creation of a custom "Severity Score," a calculated metric that quantifies the intensity of local water stress by measuring the percentage of unmet water demand relative to the total demand for each county.