The data center fight in Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth has a proposed data center moratorium on this tracker. Status is derived, not stored — a pause with a documented end date flips to Expired on its own — and the source is right next to the claim.
Status today
Council voted unanimously to begin 90-day moratorium process; public hearings required before it takes effect (~Feb 2027). Also created a Data Center & Infrastructure Committee
Source
read 2026-08-13
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
21 stories tracked since 2026-07-01 across 11 outlets. 12× Local officials are moving to pause or block the project. 5× A community is pushing back on a nearby data center. Most recent: “Fort Worth Weighs Data Center Limits as Texas Becomes World’s Largest Market” (Fort Worth Inc., 2026-08-13).
- Fort Worth Weighs Data Center Limits as Texas Becomes World’s Largest Market
- City council in Fort Worth, Texas, issues temporary data center moratorium
- Parker touts Fort Worth City Council’s unanimity in confronting data center issue
- Fort Worth City Council Begins Process to Enact 90-Day Data Center Moratorium
- Fort Worth City Council Issues Moratorium on New Data Centers
- Newly formed commission set to advise Fort Worth on data center regulations
- Data center moratorium takes first steps after Fort Worth City Council’s unanimous vote
- Data center moratorium takes first steps after Fort Worth City Council’s unanimous vote
- Data center moratorium takes first steps after Fort Worth City Council’s unanimous vote
- Fort Worth makes major moves towards data center moratorium, regulations
- Newly formed commission set to advise Fort Worth on data center regulations
- Fort Worth lays out plan to regulate data centers
+9 more on the story tracker.
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 21 headlines archived.
What to do next
- Questions to ask at the hearing — force specific answers onto the record.
- Estimate the impact — electricity, water, and rate pressure for any facility size in Texas.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Texas briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Elsewhere in Texas
- Hill County — Rescinded
- San Marcos — Enacted
- Hays County — Enactedexpires 2026-12-31
- Texas (Abbott directive) — Enacted
- Lavon — Enactedexpires 2026-11-05
- San Antonio — Proposed
- Denton — Proposed
As of August 2026 · changes weekly — re-check before citing
Illustrative rather than exhaustive — dozens of localities churn weekly, and this tracks the ones we have read a source for. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to the ordinance, the enacting body's own page, or a datable report of the vote, and were read on that date. Rows marked *unverified* came from bulk compilation and have not been checked against a primary source — the locality, the year, and the status may all be off. Verify one of those with the town clerk before citing it as precedent. **Expiry is derived, not asserted.** A row with a documented end date flips to *Expired* on its own once that date passes. A time-limited moratorium whose start date was never documented keeps showing as enacted — that is a known gap, not a claim that it is still in force. Moratoriums are also routinely extended, so an expiry date is the earliest it could have ended, not proof that it did.
Part of the U.S. data center moratorium tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0.