Pushback on data centers has forced developers to seek out community permission, something the industry largely hadn’t had to do in the past.By Arcelia MartinWhen BaRupOn LLC, a California-based developer, bought land in East Texas for a 700-acre industrial campus in 2023, the company received a warm welcome from the state. The developer set out to build numerous data centers and rare-earth manufacturing facilities at the site, as well as its own power plants.