Fort Worth pushes vote to August for $10B data center site plan. What to know

The Fort Worth City Council was supposed to vote June 23 on a 187-acre site plan for a $10 billion data center proposed by Fort Worth-based energy consortium Black Mountain.

However, it appears that vote won’t take place till August, according to Fort Worth city council member Chris Nettles.

The site plan vote will take place sometime after the council votes on a slate on policy changes governing city regulations of data centers, Nettles said in a text message to the Star-Telegram.

He did not specify when in August the vote will take place, but the policy vote is expected on Aug. 11.

The southeast Fort Worth project has drawn months of pushback from residents and nearby city leaders worried about environmental, water and power impacts.

Here are key takeaways:

• The City Council delayed the site plan vote less than three hours before its scheduled May 12 meeting, pushing the decision to an 11 a.m. meeting on June 23.
• Black Mountain has petitioned Fort Worth to rezone roughly 431 acres near Forest Hill and Everman, with the campus planned to include four buildings totaling 2.2 million square feet and a substation that would deliver power only to the data center.
• The 187-acre site at the corner of Lon Stephenson Road and Forest Hill Drive would stand 68 feet tall and include 246 parking spaces, with buildings made of concrete, glass and metal.
• Fort Worth Assistant City Manager Jesica McEachern presented proposed regulations on June 2 that would prohibit cryptocurrency mining, increase setbacks, require acoustic barriers and mandate closed-loop cooling systems for new data centers.
• A 90-day moratorium on new data center developments remains on the table but could not take effect until late October because of new state guidelines, McEachern told council members.
• Black Mountain CEO Rhett Bennett has said the project will generate roughly $30 million annually in tax revenue for Fort Worth and Tarrant County and create hundreds of full-time jobs with average wages above $75,000.
• The city of Fort Worth delayed developer Black Mountain’s zoning requests for an additional 80 acres from an expected June 9 vote to Dec. 8. The requests have been postponed multiple times since January after Forest Hill and Everman leaders raised concerns.
• A separate tax break proposal would have offer Edged Data Centers a 50% property tax break on equipment for 10 years in exchange for a $1.1 billion investment near Veale Ranch and 50 jobs averaging $73,000 annually, however, the company withdrew its tax break request after public and city council pushback.
• The Fort Worth Zoning Commission is expected to review proposed data center zoning amendments on July 8, with the City Council expected to act on them Aug. 11.

The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The source reporting referenced above was written and edited entirely by journalists.

This story was originally published June 18, 2026 at 12:52 PM.