Crossroads Lubbock

08/23/2026

08/07/2026

07/20/2026

Texas Tech’s football stadium now carries the name of Galaxy—a company betting its future on AI data centers.

Their Helios campus in Dickens County isn’t being built to benefit the people of West Texas. It’s being built to feed the (supposed) growing demand for artificial intelligence and the very real expansion of surveillance technologies, consuming enormous amounts of electricity and water while placing even more strain on infrastructure that has never been abundant in our region.

This isn’t something to celebrate. It’s another example of a major corporation attaching its name to a public institution while expanding an industry that many of us believe leaves local communities paying the price.

More power consumption. More water consumption. More industrial development. More pressure on our infrastructure. And for what?

Putting a corporate logo on a football stadium doesn’t change what these projects are or who they primarily serve.

West Texas deserves better than becoming a proving ground for an industry that asks local communities to bear the costs while multinational corporations reap the rewards.

Just because they sponsor the stadium doesn’t mean they’ve earned our support.

— L.L.

07/09/2026

Carl Tepper is a lame.