a growing chorus across North Texas<\/a>, where communities are increasingly asking how much data center growth is too much.<\/p>\nTexas already leads the nation in data centers under construction \u2014 142 and counting. But that boom is now running into resistance.<\/p>\n
In Fort Worth, a vote on a $10 billion data center development was pulled from the City Council agenda just hours before it was scheduled and pushed to next month.<\/p>\n
In Ellis County, the Red Oak City Council cleared the way Monday for an 800-acre data center site, despite protests.<\/p>\n
In Hill County, leaders went the other direction entirely.<\/p>\n
According to the Texas Tribune, Hill County appears to be the first county in Texas to issue a moratorium on new data centers in unincorporated areas, citing public safety and public health concerns.<\/p>\n
Joanne Carcamo, who cofounded a group called Protect the Paluxy Valley, calls it a historic moment.<\/p>\n
“I mean, I’m ecstatic. It’s history.”<\/p>\n
But she says the moratorium is just a start. Carcamo worries that projects like Comanche Circle could strain water resources that feed the Paluxy River and Dinosaur Valley State Park.<\/p>\n
“We really are hoping that more people get involved to try to save this gem. I mean, this is irreplaceable.”<\/p>\n
On Monday, Somervell County voted to send a resolution and letter to state leaders in Austin, asking for a pause on new data center applications.<\/p>\n
The company behind Comanche Circle, Sailfish Investors, tells WFAA the project would bring $60 billion in private investment to Hood County and give the local school district the tax base to finally build a new junior high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas leads the nation with data centers under construction, but North Texas communities are pushing back \u2014 with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-290577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}