Developer Black Mountain is asking the Fort Worth City Council to approve rezoning of an additional 119 acres for inclusion in a development that includes a data center. The area is near Weston Gardens, bottom left, a family-owned botanical garden and event venue.
Amanda McCoy
amccoy@star-telegram.com
A pair of requests to rezone roughly 80 acres for a $10 billion data center planned for southeast Fort Worth will be postponed again as the Fort Worth City Council seeks answers about the project.
Black Mountain, a Fort Worth-based energy consortium, has successfully petitioned the Fort Worth City Council to approve the rezoning of roughly 431 acres of land in the southeast corner of the city near Forest Hill and Everman to build an AI data center.
The developers hit a speed bump when a pair of zoning requests was continued by the City Council at its meeting in January so council members could receive a briefing on data centers.
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The zoning requests are for 42 and 38 acres, the former on the east side of Anglin Drive near the Forest Hill city line, and the latter east of Anglin Drive and north of Everman Kennedale Road.
When the council brought it up for discussion, District 8 council member Chris Nettles again asked for those requests to be continued until the February meeting.
At that meeting on Feb. 10, council members listened as Bob Riley — a consultant with Richardson-based Halff, who is working on behalf of Black Mountain — reviewed presentations for the rezoning requests.
Nettles — and District 11 council member Jeanette Martinez — then said that the council would still need more information before they could approve the requests. Mayor Mattie Parker said the council would receive a briefing about data centers, and take up the item at the March 10 meeting.
The council has yet to receive that briefing — which will feature information from Oncor, according to Nettles — and the requests will remain tabled.
The rezoning requests are on the agenda for the March 10 City Council meeting, scheduled for 6 p.m. at the City Council Chamber, 100 Fort Worth Trail.
Black Mountain did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
Sue Weston, the owner of Weston Gardens — adjacent to where the data center will be built — has spoken about her concerns that the developers are not doing enough to be transparent about the project’s footprint.
“It’s prime real estate to be developed for homes and other things, not a data center,” Weston told the Star-Telegram on Monday. “If you look at the few jobs that it’s going to create after construction, it makes no economic sense at all.”
Black Mountain CEO Rhett Bennett previously told the Star-Telegram that the data center is expected to generate $30 million annually in tax revenue for Fort Worth and Tarrant County, and create “hundreds of high-skill, high-wage full-time jobs in technical facility operations, logistics, and security” with average wages of more than $75,000.
The company does not have a formal economic development agreement with the city of Fort Worth.
Nettles did not say when exactly the briefing would take place, or when the rezoning requests would be taken up by the City Council.
The developers will be conducting a community meeting in Forest Hill, said Forest Hill Mayor Stephanie Boardingham in a Facebook post. It scheduled for 5:30 p.m. March 11 at Best Western, 3230 Forest Hill Circle. Staff reporter Harrison Mantas contributed to this story.
This story was originally published March 9, 2026 at 3:01 PM.
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Emily Holshouser is a local news reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.