Ellie Ashby is an Austin-based reporting fellow with the Texas Tribune and Religion News Service. A 2024 graduate of Harvard College, she wrote for The Harvard Crimson as a member of the editorial board, primarily covering religion on campus, and also served as an associate editor of the columns section. Ellie also holds a master of theological studies degree from Harvard Divinity School, where her studies focused on American religious history and American evangelicalism. She is originally from Houston.
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“A deal with the devil”: Religion Motivates Data Center Opponents in Texas
07-30-2026
Matt Long in his backyard, which sits along the Brazos River, in the Pecan Plantation neighborhood of Hood County on May 28, 2026. His home is near a planned data center. Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune
Matt Long stood before the Granbury City Council at an April zoning meeting to oppose the influx of proposed data centers in Hood County, likening them to a spiritual abomination.