Those companies building AI datacenters in Texas are still mostly hiring for higher-paid office positions (like SWE) in the Bay Area, Seattle, NYC, etc because that's where the leadership still is. Before this, it was the same, California had almost 0 datacenters while the rest were in like SC, OR, TX, NV, IA. You could argue CA should've been more receptive to datacenters because they bring decent jobs, but I don't see a reason to focus so much on them.