Hood County, TX

May 25, 2026

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Texas Ranks First on Power. A 5,500-Person Town Decides the Water.

Sailfish Development's 2,600-acre Comanche Circle project, consuming roughly a million gallons of water daily, has triggered two failed 3-2 moratorium votes by Hood County commissioners.

May 17, 2026

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Hill County Wants State Rules. Smart Developers Will Help Write Them.

Hood and Hays counties have explored similar pauses.

May 1, 2026

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Fort Bliss Becomes the Borderland's Third Gigawatt Build in 18 Months

Hood County and Granbury residents have filed litigation and packed meetings; Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller floated "Agriculture Freedom Zones" in January to redirect projects toward marginal land and brownfields.

April 6, 2026

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When Military Strikes Take Down Cloud Regions, Location Becomes Strategy

Hood County residents, who previously fought a Bitcoin mining operation and blocked a data center near Dinosaur Valley State Park, drew an overflow crowd at January's annexation meeting.

March 28, 2026

Hood County's failed moratorium attempt, which state Sen. Paul Bettencourt called illegal, shows local governments are testing limits even where state preemption exists.

March 27, 2026

In Hood County, Republican commissioners postponed action on MARA Holdings data center proposals, citing doubts about the boom's permanence.

March 19, 2026

The moratorium push gains weight alongside a detailed look at the Sailfish datacenter campus proposed in neighboring Hood County, where community opposition already forced a water strategy reversal, and a statewide SXSW panel warning that Texas datacenter water consumption could hit 161 billion gallons annually by 2030.

March 11, 2026

The resolution, sent to Governor Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick, the PUCT, ERCOT, and the Texas Water Development Board, follows a public hearing that drew roughly 90 residents and reflects a pattern now visible across Hood County, Somervell County, and Jack County simultaneously.

March 6, 2026

early reports suggest Amazon is advancing an 18-building campus beside Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant in Somervell County and a 21-building, 1,265-acre Project Spectrum in Hood County powered by Vistra subsidiary Luminant.

March 1, 2026

Separately, in Hood County near DFW, commissioners twice rejected moratorium petitions from 60+ residents concerned about water and grid impacts from the 2,600-acre Comanche Circle Project.

February 25, 2026

Meanwhile, seven activists and roughly two dozen supporters rallied at the Capitol demanding Gov. Abbott call a special session, with Hood County residents and Rena Schroeder, a Republican Senate candidate in South Texas, framing data center expansion as a rural threat.

February 24, 2026

Water fights stretching from Hood County to El Paso.

February 22, 2026

Hood County leaders rejected a construction pause after a state senator threatened legal action.

February 21, 2026

Hood County commissioners voted 3-2 to reject a temporary moratorium on datacenter development after state intervention.

February 15, 2026

In Hood County, commissioners killed what would have been Texas's first county-level data center moratorium by a 3-2 vote after state Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) sent a letter to Attorney General Ken Paxton arguing counties lack moratorium authority under HB 2559.

February 12, 2026

Hood County, Texas saw a proposed datacenter moratorium squashed by a state senator, signaling state-level actors are actively protecting development pipelines.

February 11, 2026

Hood County commissioners voted 3-2 to reject a datacenter moratorium after a state senator intervened to assert the county lacked legal authority to impose one.