Brazoria County Commissioners Court voted 5 to 0 to deny the reinvestment zone that four data center and power plant abatement applications depended on

Brazoria County Commissioners Court opened and closed a public hearing on the creation of Brazoria County Reinvestment Zone No. 26-01 on March 10th, 2026 and then refused to create the zone. Commissioner David R. Linder moved to deny the order and Commissioner Stacy L. Adams seconded. The county's own minute note records that the motion to deny passed 5 to 0. Later items on the same agenda were four tax abatement applications, two from Bulldog Power and two from Old Ocean Datacenter. Each of those items carries the same note in the record. No action was taken because the reinvestment zone item had failed. Killing the zone killed the abatements without a separate vote on any one of them.