Fort Worth to review plans for $10 billion data center development
The Fort Worth City Council is expected to review the site plan for a data center Tuesday, May 12, planned for the city’s southeast edge that has brought concern to residents and some leaders.
Black Mountain, a Fort Worth-based energy consortium, has hit roadblocks in the development of an AI data center project after successfully petitioning the city to rezone roughly 431 acres near Forest Hill and Everman.
On Tuesday, the council will review a 187-acre site plan for the development that the zoning commission recommended approval for in April. The site, at the corner of Lon Stephenson Road and Forest Hill Drive, was initially rezoned in 2025.
The site plan includes a 70-foot increase in the setback against Lon Stephenson Road, putting the edge of the campus 150 feet from single-family residential zoning, and an increase in the allowed height of the buildings on the site from 55 feet to 70 feet.
Black Mountain discussed the site plans with residents at a tense meeting on March 11.
The data center campus, standing 68 feet tall, would encompass 232.5 acres, with four buildings, according to the site plan. There would be 2.2 million square feet of enclosed space with an Oncor electricity substation in the center of the property. The site would also include 246 parking spaces. Buildings would be made of concrete, glass and metal.
Black Mountain CEO Rhett Bennett told commissioners in April that the substation would provide power only to the data center.
Two additional requests to rezone roughly 87 acres of land for the data center are scheduled to go before the council in June after members receive a briefing on data center infrastructure at the council’s work session on June 2.
Those requests have been delayed multiple times after council members asked for more information about the development.
This story was originally published May 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM.
