Fort Worth Schedules Nov. 10 Hearing on Data Center Moratorium, DCIC Report

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 started the 90-day moratorium process and created the commission.

City materials also point to a tentative moratorium adoption vote on Feb. 16, 2027, that would need a supermajority, begin an initial 90-day term, and lock the city out of imposing another data-center moratorium for two years afterward. For neighborhoods already tracking power, water, and zoning fights, the November calendar is the next civic checkpoint.

What Aug. 11 started and what Nov. 10 advances

The city’s Data Centers page lists these Aug. 11, 2026, council moves:

• Initiate the process for a 90-day moratorium on data center development
• Establish the Fort Worth Data Center & Infrastructure Commission (DCIC)
• Adopt an application requirement for data centers
• Adopt closed-loop cooling and Non-Significant Industrial User wastewater requirements for new data centers in the Fort Worth Water Utility service area

Nov. 10, 2026, is scheduled as:

• Special Called City Council Work Session, 4 p.m.: DCIC report to council
• City Council Meeting, 6 p.m.: first public hearing in the legal process to enact a moratorium

The Zoning Commission on July 8 voted 7-4 to deny proposed zoning amendments even while supporting stronger regulation in concept; council is advancing the broader package separately. Proposed standards described on the city page include a 250-foot residential setback, generator siting and screening rules, noise limits of no more than 5 dBA over pre-development ambient within 250 feet of residential, and a crypto-mining prohibition.

Inventory, tax revenue, and the regional policy board

Fort Worth already hosts four data-center developments spanning 10 buildings and more than 3 million square feet in Council Districts 5 and 10, with the first built in 2000 and the latest completed in 2025. One additional facility is under construction in District 7; four more are proposed inside the city; two are proposed in the extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Gross property tax from data centers exceeded $83 million over the last five years. City copy equates 2024 revenue to about 8,300 average single-family homes and, on the known pipeline, about 22,700 homes by 2030.

Nearby Never Late News coverage already mapped Dallas’s hyperscale land-use and moratorium memos, Fort Worth’s earlier Edged tax-break debate, and Attorney General Paxton’s data-center water reporting push across Dallas and Tarrant. Those pieces keep Fort Worth’s Nov. 10 hearing inside the metro policy cluster instead of a one-city silo.

Water, noise, and what to watch through February

Aug. 11’s closed-loop cooling and NSIU wastewater rules are already adopted for new projects on city water. The proposed noise and setback package is still moving through the hearing track. A moratorium, if adopted in February, pauses new applications for an initial 90 days under Local Government Code process rules and does not halt vested or already-submitted projects.

Residents should watch the Nov. 10 DCIC report, the second required hearing after November, and the Feb. 16, 2027, tentative adoption date. Industry and neighborhood speakers will likely split over the $83 million tax story versus water, noise, and grid concerns the city says it can only partly regulate locally.

Why this matters

Data-center politics in North Texas now run on calendars as much as site plans. Fort Worth’s Nov. 10 work session and first moratorium hearing, plus a February supermajority vote that also starts a two-year ban on repeating the pause, will shape how fast new server campuses can file inside the city while existing inventory and tax receipts stay on the books. Households should read the hearing dates, the inventory, and the tax figures together.

How Never Late News reported this

Never Late News based this report on the City of Fort Worth Data Centers page, which documents the Aug. 11, 2026, actions (moratorium process, DCIC, application requirement, closed-loop cooling and NSIU wastewater rules), the Nov. 10, 2026, DCIC report work session and first moratorium hearing, the Feb. 16, 2027, tentative adoption vote and two-year re-imposition limit, the existing inventory (4 developments / 10 buildings / more than 3 million square feet; District 7 under construction; four proposed in city; two in ETJ), the more than $83 million five-year gross property-tax figure and home-equivalent comparisons, the July 8 Zoning Commission 7-4 denial, and the proposed setback, generator, noise, and crypto-mining standards. Primary link: City of Fort Worth Data Centers page. Companion internal context: NLN Dallas hyperscale land-use piece. We did not invent facility names beyond the city’s published inventory description.

Corrections and reader feedback

If you spot an error in hearing dates, inventory counts, or tax figures, email editor@neverlatenews.com with the correction and a source link. Never Late News corrects factual mistakes promptly and notes substantive updates when the City of Fort Worth revises data-center materials.

About Never Late News: Never Late News is a US local and civic news site covering budgets, taxes, schools, housing, and public services with people-first reporting. This article carries the byline William J. Vaughn.