Gee. Not everyone likes data centers for a variety of reasons. To their credit, a bunch of people from Hood County have been fighting against not only not having one around Granbury but having taxpayers help out with tax abatements.

Here is an article from KERA News from the other day- Granbury residents sue city over data center plan, allege Texas Open Meetings Act violations. Apparently the City of Granbury decided to annex some property off 377 with the purpose of establishing a data center and DID NOT FOLLOW, according to the plaintiffs, the Texas Open Meetings Act

18.That on or about, December 31, 2025, Plaintiffs learned via social media that the City of
Granbury was considering the annexation of Knox Ranch. Thereafter, Plaintiffs conducted
research and discovered that the City of Granbury had undertaken the annexation of Knox
Ranch to allow for a proposed data center to be developed and constructed. Plaintiffs request
the Court take note that all information regarding the planned data center at Knox Ranch has
been concealed by the City Council of the City of Granbury, and not made publicly
available, and the City of Granbury still declines to admit to the true purpose of the
annexation.

19. Plaintiffs allege that no accurate formal public notice was published in a periodical of
    common circulation or that no official city communication had been undertaken regarding
    the annexation of Knox Ranch. Further, the purpose for the annexation by the City of
    Granbury of Knox Ranch was concealed or omitted from official documents. Plaintiffs
    through their own due diligence discovered that Knox Ranch was being annexed for the
    development and construction of a data center.
20. When Plaintiffs reviewed the Granbury City Council Agenda Report on the City of
    Granbury website for the open and public meeting scheduled for January 6, 2026, regarding
    the ordinance related to the annexation of Knox Ranch, it was discovered that the link titled
    “Ordinance No. 26-02” was a broken and directed users to a webpage with “This XML file
    does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is
    shown below.”

Allegedly breaking TOMA

The City Council is attempting to force through the annexation Knox Ranch without
the Citizens of Granbury and Hood County, Texas, being fully informed, appraised and
aware of the City of Granbury’s intended goal. Further, in failing or refusing to provide
documents subject to the Public Information Act prior to voting for annexation Defendants
have all but tied the hands of their constituents, therefore leaving them uninformed of the
scope and purpose of the annexation, and depriving them an opportunity to deliberate the
matter in a public forum.

Hey, side note that this is almost EXACTLY what happened with Somervell County for which Danny Chambers (corruptly in my book) tried to defend why they were taking a vote on this without any information being put out about it till about a month later and which, IF anyone would have tried to know, the judge and commissioners dia NDAs. Here is the last post I did about this with my questions. Note that the information about the data center was not publicly available until about 3 weeks AFTER the Commissioners Court voted on it, thus, in my book, violaitng the Texas Open Meetings Act and keeping citizens in the dark. We do not have a dictatorship, Mr Chambers. Given that this vote from Granbury has quite a few of the same objections and also elleging violating TOMA (Texas Open Meetings Act), wonder if anyone here in Glen Rose has lodged a lawsuit and asked, as the Granbury plaintiffs did, for, ultimately a permanent injunction. READ that entire lawsuit from Granbury against the Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem etc.

as I’m reading the lawsuit I have to laugh at how many errors the City of Granbury made, including the annexation of Knox Ranch as *involuntary* and getting the address wrong. Incompetent.

This part reminded me of what Somervell County did by sending commissioners to Alabama to see the data center going in on Vistra’s property

Defendants, as well as Hood County Commissioners Kevin Andrews and Jack Wilson, and
Assistant City Manager, Michael Ross, were present on the “field trip” to Bilateral Energy.
Shea Hopkins, cognizant of that fact that public officials would constitute a quorum
suggested staggering tour times of the Bilateral Energy facility by two minutes. Plaintiffs
allege this is a futile attempt to sidestep and subvert the Texas Open Meetings Act. A
majority of the publicly elected officials, operating in their official capacities, and
employees of the City of Granbury, were present on the tour of the Bilateral Energy Data
Center. Additionally, Shea Hopkins arranged for transportation of all individuals to and
from the Bilateral Energy Data Center in a multiple passenger vehicle according to her
proposed itinerary.

(Attached hereto as Exhibit “A” a true and correct copy of the Granbury
City Council Agenda Report, the error webpage, and the METADATA2GO.COM of the
document titled “City of Granbury, City Council Ordinance No.26-02_01.06.2026” proving

Here is the link to the lawsuit PDF=The plaintiffs are asking for both a temporary restraining order as well as a permanent injunction against the data center.

Additional info about data centers.

Can TCEQ adequately monitor the air quality etc of data centers? Nope

According to the researchers, training a single large Al model produces as much pollution as driving across the country 10,000 times — meaning these facilities could eventually be as harmful to the air as heavy highway traffic.

Ahead of the 2025 Legislative Session, the TCEQ asked the state legislature for $60 million in additional funding in order to efficiently enforce its duties.

“Without additional resources, it will be difficult for TCEQ to meet the increasing demands placed on the agency, including emerging technologies, and maintain state primacy for many of its programs,” the agency wrote to the legislature. “If TCEQ does not have sufficient resources, permit timeframes will lag and TCEQ’s ability to timely respond to the needs of regulated entities and the public will be hindered.”

Side note that I remember some years back when TCEQ was called in to fight the rock crushing operation going in on Hwy 67at Chalk Mountain and how nonsensical the testing was to determine air quality

Remember that the current commissioners and judge are all for the data centers. Luckily Danny Chambers will be gone when the next election comes up, but keep this in mind whwne you consider who to vote for as County Attornry or Commissioners. Somervell commissioners are pretty much fine with robbing taxpayers while inflicting terrible things on uninformed Glen Rose citizens.

But Greg Abbott and the Texas Lege do-Texas is giving data centers more than $1 billion in tax breaks each year

Can Texas’ identity outlast the data center takeover?

“We are truly being invaded by big tech.”