William J. Vaughn
A day after Gov. Greg Abbott told TCEQ to halt permits for data centers, a $430 million Colovore data center was registered for Fort Worth’s Denton County side. Here is what the pause covers, what the state filing means and the dates to watch.
Denton council holds an Oct. 13 hearing on code changes that would end by-right data centers, triple the residential buffer to 300 feet, ban evaporative cooling and require grid approvals before a permit reaches an agenda.
FORT WORTH, The City of Fort Worth has set Nov. 10, 2026, for a special called work session at 4 p.m. on the Data Center & Infrastructure Commission report and a 6 p.m. council meeting that serves as the first of two required public hearings toward a data-center development moratorium, following Aug. 11 actions that … Read more
DALLAS, Five Dallas City Council members asked in an Aug. 11, 2026 memorandum for a public hearing path to rewrite how the city regulates hyperscale data centers, which today are commonly slotted as “communications exchange facilities” allowed by right in many nonresidential zones under Dallas Development Code Section 51A-4.212(4). Councilmember Chad West’s filing, joined by … Read more
AUSTIN / DALLAS-FORT WORTH , Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened a statewide investigation on Sept. 24, 2026, into hundreds of data center developments that have not answered the Texas Water Development Board’s water-use survey, and the Office of the Attorney General’s county list expressly includes Dallas and Tarrant. The probe is about reporting compliance, … Read more
COLLIN COUNTY , Oncor is pushing a multi-year package of electric reliability upgrades across fast-growing Collin County, with construction in and around Princeton that the utility said would begin the week of Aug. 24, 2026, plus related work in McKinney, Celina, and other communities named on its Collin County service improvements page. The utility frames … Read more
FORT WORTH — Fort Worth City Council unanimously tabled a proposed 50% property tax abatement for Edged Data Centers’ planned $1 billion facility on about 186 acres at Veale Ranch during its March 31, 2026 meeting, after council members and residents pressed for clearer local benefits, noise and water limits, and grid oversight. The item, … Read more
DENTON — Denton City Council held the first of two required public hearings on Sept. 22, 2026, on a proposed 90-day moratorium on new data-center development, as Core Scientific, the city’s largest data-center operator, has approached Denton Municipal Electric about leasing more public land south of its current site. The pause would give council time … Read more
KELLER, Texas — Keller ISD is asking voters on Nov. 3, 2026, to authorize an $828 million bond package whose largest proposition is built around the energy and building systems that keep campuses open: roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, code compliance, and safety work across 34 campuses and facilities. Trustees called the election after a Citizens … Read more