{"id":397735,"date":"2026-08-04T21:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397735\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:26:22","slug":"fort-worth-city-council-to-review-proposed-data-center-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397735\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth City Council to review proposed data center regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fort Worth City Council will hold a work session Tuesday to receive an update on proposed regulations governing local data center developments, including potential building restrictions and a path toward a moratorium.<\/p>\n<p>City staff are set to present council members with regulatory options, community feedback, and the formal process required to enact a temporary halt on new facilities.<\/p>\n<p>If data center projects are permitted to proceed, officials are considering stricter standards to mitigate environmental and neighborhood impacts. Proposed rules include requiring a 250-foot building setback from residential properties and mandating a 50-foot landscaped buffer designed to dampen operational noise.<\/p>\n<p>Water conservation is also a central focus of the proposal. To protect municipal water supplies, the city is weighing a requirement that would force data centers to utilize closed-loop cooling systems.<\/p>\n<p>Council members could vote as early as next week to initiate the legal process, which would trigger a months-long period of public hearings before a full moratorium could be enacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Worth City Council will hold a work session Tuesday to receive an update on proposed regulations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-397735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397735","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=397735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}