Editor’s note: This is the first of two stories from Thursday’s “Powering Texas and Regional Growth: Infrastructure + Workforce Exchange” in Harlingen. This story focuses on infrastructure. The second will examine the Rio Grande Valley’s workforce needs.
The Rio Grande Valley spent years trying to attract the kind of large-scale industrial investment now pouring into South Texas.
Now that some of those projects are here, their suppliers are beginning to follow and the infrastructure needed to support them is being tested in ways regional leaders say will require the Valley to plan — and build — differently.
In Brownsville, that challenge can already be measured in megawatts.
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