Data center beside Foster Park remains unpopular…
Author: Will McDaniel
Following public comment, Mayor Thompson stated that he felt confident in the proposed regulations before taking the first motion to move forward. The regulations will be heard again at council to address the changes to utility ordinance.
Council considers Animal Shelter redesign, seeking to relieve the overcrowded and aging infrastructure suffered by shelter’s current residence.
Advertised on the top of the page as a “Nationwide Opinions Survey,” it became clear this survey was very Texas specific and related to an extremely hot topic: data centers.
Acting Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Kelly Hancock released approval figures for the first round of Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) awarded in March 2026.
COMMENTARY: “The questions turned away from specifics about this data center, (how much, how far, and for how long?), turning into general criticism of larger economic trends, most notably, consumerism.
For the locals who spoke against the data center, it was not so much that this particular data center coming in that was the problem, but that the larger economic trend it represents makes working people scared.”
If passed by council, the ordinance would place strict requirements on future water use by data center: a 10,000 square-foot data center would be required to use no more than one households worth of water every three years