Don't bother reading the article. It doesn't have any discussion of what the regulations in question are or what the actual impact of this factory not being bound by them will be. Basically there is almost no actual information content and you have read 90% of it from just the headline.
As a yimby, I am required by consistency and good taste to applaud this outcome. Cities with their own local environmental rules is a recipe for disaster. It is the reason why American construction is paralyzed. You can say that these environmental regulations included air and water rules, but mainly what they've been used to do is to stop the construction of housing. The fact that Austin was able to enforce its development regulations outside of its own city limits is pretty ridiculous honestly.
Under a unitary state government, counties and cities have no rights or powers that the state legislature doesn't give them. There's nothing to see here.
Giga Texas isn't located in Austin... just next door, they will still be under Travis County regulations, it's not like there is now a free for all with no rules.
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