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
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