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Fort Worth City Council unanimously began a 90 day data center moratorium and adopted grid filing requirements over one dissent

Land, water and permittingFort Worth City CouncilTarrantPublic meeting

The Fort Worth City Council took three data center votes on August 11th, 2026. Members unanimously approved the first steps toward a 90 day moratorium on accepting, processing and approving new data center applications inside the city. Two further items passed over a single dissent. One creates a Data Center and Infrastructure Commission. The other amends the city code so applicants must document their filings for connection to the Texas grid. The pause is not in force yet. Under the city timeline it takes effect on February 16th after public hearings and further votes, and zoning applications filed before then stay outside it. The city held the first public hearing at its November 10th meeting. It has set the second hearing and the first reading for January 12th, 2027, and says the soonest the council can enact the pause is February 2027, by a supermajority. The commission made 19 recommendations, five of them on water.

How to take part

The moratorium needs further notices, hearings and readings before a vote, so residents can speak at the remaining Fort Worth City Council hearings ahead of the second reading. The city's own data center page carries the timeline and the commission's final report.

Where to do it

Where

1 county. In Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington.

Timeline

  1. ordered

    council votes on the moratorium process, the commission and the code amendment

  2. hearing

    first public hearing in the moratorium process, at the council's 6 p.m. meeting

  3. Today
  4. hearing

    second public hearing and first reading of the moratorium ordinance, tentative

    58 days out
  5. effective

    date the 90 day pause would take effect if adopted after public hearings

How this decision moved

One dated line per check, oldest first. A line that says nothing changed means somebody looked and it had not.

  1. 2026-08-19

    Checked and unchanged. The 90 day pause still takes effect February 16th and only after public hearings and further votes.

  2. 2026-08-22

    Checked and unchanged. The council's August 11th votes still stand. They include the requirement that a data center application carry proof that the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT have approved its grid connection.

  3. 2026-08-25

    Checked and unchanged. Still open, with no dated movement.

  4. 2026-08-28

    Checked and unchanged. Fort Worth's moratorium on accepting and processing new data center applications is still running, and the grid filing requirements adopted with it still apply. The city has posted no early lift.

  5. 2026-09-01

    Fort Worth's moratorium and grid-filing direction remain active while permanent data-center rules are still in development.

  6. 2026-09-02

    Checked and unchanged. Still open, with no dated movement.

  7. 2026-09-05

    Fort Worth's moratorium is still running and the grid filing requirements adopted with it are still in force. No extension has been voted.

  8. 2026-09-08

    Fort Worth's data center moratorium is still running and the grid filing requirements adopted with it are still in force.

  9. 2026-09-09

    Fort Worth's data center moratorium is still running and the grid filing rules the council adopted alongside it are still in force.

  10. 2026-09-12

    Checked and unchanged. Still open, with no dated movement.

  11. 2026-09-13

    Checked and unchanged. Still open, with no dated movement.

  12. 2026-09-16

    Fort Worth's moratorium is still running and the grid filing requirements adopted alongside it are still in force. No extension and no early lift has been noticed.

  13. 2026-09-19

    The moratorium is still running and the grid filing requirements adopted with it are still in force.

  14. 2026-09-23

    Fort Worth's pause is still running and its grid filing requirements still apply to anything filed during it.

  15. 2026-09-26

    Fort Worth's moratorium is still running, and its grid filing requirements still apply to what is filed in the meantime.

  16. 2026-09-29

    Fort Worth's data center moratorium is in effect, and anyone filing in the meantime still owes the grid information the council adopted.

  17. 2026-10-02

    Fort Worth's moratorium still reads as Community Impact reported it. KERA's account would not load, so its part of the entry is unconfirmed.

  18. 2026-10-03

    Fort Worth's moratorium still reads as Community Impact reported it. KERA's account would not load again, so its part of the entry is unconfirmed.

  19. 2026-10-04

    Community Impact's fetched account supports the council's first steps toward a 90 day pause and the February 16th adoption timeline after hearings and readings. The pause is not yet in force. KERA's cited account refused the fetch, so its wording remains unconfirmed. Both existing claim outcomes were checked against Community Impact's full account.

  20. 2026-10-07

    Community Impact's account of Fort Worth's first steps toward the pause still reads as cited, and the pause is not yet in force. KERA's account refused the request, so its part of the entry is unconfirmed.

  21. 2026-10-08

    Community Impact's account of the first steps toward Fort Worth's pause still reads as cited. KERA's account and the city's own record are unconfirmed, so whether the hearings have been set is not known.

  22. 2026-10-09

    Community Impact's account confirms the first steps toward Fort Worth's pause and the proposed adoption timeline after hearings and readings. The pause is not yet in force under that timeline. KERA's account remains unavailable, so its exact wording is unconfirmed.

  23. 2026-10-14

    Community Impact's account still reads as cited, with the first steps toward a pause taken and no adoption reported. KERA's account and the city's own record are unconfirmed, so their wording is not known.

  24. 2026-10-17

    Community Impact's account still describes the first steps toward a Fort Worth pause, with hearings and readings to come and no adoption reported. KERA's account is unconfirmed, so its exact wording is not known.

  25. 2026-10-20

    Community Impact still reports only the first steps toward Fort Worth's 90 day pause, with no adoption since. KERA's account stays unconfirmed, as its address now forwards to a page that refused the request.

  26. 2026-10-23

    Community Impact's account and KERA's are unconfirmed today, since both refused the request or did not answer in full. The record still holds Fort Worth's pause at its first steps.

  27. 2026-10-24

    The record still holds Fort Worth's data center pause at its first steps. KERA's account is unconfirmed today, since the station refused the request.

  28. 2026-10-25

    Fort Worth's data center pause stays at its first steps in the record. KERA's account is unconfirmed today, since the station turned the request away.

  29. 2026-10-26

    Fort Worth's data center pause is still unconfirmed past its first steps. KERA's account refused the request again.

  30. 2026-10-29

    Fort Worth's moratorium and grid filing rules still read as reported. The public radio account is unconfirmed.

  31. 2026-11-01

    Fort Worth's moratorium and grid filing rules stay unconfirmed today. The public radio account answers no request from this project.

  32. 2026-11-02

    Fort Worth's first steps toward a pause on new data center applications still read as the council took them, with the final vote still ahead.

  33. 2026-11-05

    Fort Worth's moratorium vote has no fresh confirmation on the public radio account, which still refuses every reader. The final vote is still ahead.

  34. 2026-11-06

    Fort Worth's moratorium vote goes unconfirmed again on the public radio account, which still turns away every reader. The final vote remains ahead.

  35. 2026-11-07

    Fort Worth's moratorium is still on the road to a final vote. The public radio account behind it can't be read again today.

  36. 2026-11-08

    Fort Worth's temporary data center moratorium and its grid filing requirements still read as the council adopted them.

  37. 2026-11-12

    The city scheduled its first public hearing on the moratorium for the November 10th council meeting. Adoption needs a supermajority and can come no sooner than February 2027.

  38. 2026-11-15

    The city now lists the first public hearing as held on November 10th. Its tentative next step is a second hearing and first reading on January 12th, 2027.

The evidence

Every fact above rests on one of these. The words are the source's own.

the first steps to initiate a 90-day moratorium on accepting, processing and approving new applications for data centers
Fort Worth City Council approves steps to start moratorium process on data centers | Community Impact Journalism · communityimpact.com
If a moratorium is ultimately approved, the 90-day pause will take effect Feb. 16, after public hearings have been held and votes taken as required by state law and reports and studies from the city's Data Center & Infrastructure Committee have been submitted to Fort Worth officials.
Data center moratorium takes first steps after Fort Worth City Council's unanimous vote | KERA News Journalism · keranews.org
The City's first public hearing in the legal process for a proposed 90-day moratorium on new data center development was scheduled for the Council's 6 p.m. meeting Nov. 10.
City of Fort Worth, Data Centers Primary source, official · fortworthtexas.gov
The soonest Council will be able to enact a moratorium is February 2027.
City of Fort Worth, Data Centers Primary source, official · fortworthtexas.gov
This action will require a supermajority of the Council to approve and begin the initial 90-day term of the moratorium.
City of Fort Worth, Data Centers Primary source, official · fortworthtexas.gov
There are 19 recommendations: two on electricity, five on water, eight on land use and neighborhoods, and four on economic impacts.
City of Fort Worth, Data Centers Primary source, official · fortworthtexas.gov
Should the moratorium be adopted, the City may not impose another moratorium on data center development for two years.
City of Fort Worth, Data Centers Primary source, official · fortworthtexas.gov
First public hearing of the legal process to enact a moratorium on data center development held
City of Fort Worth, Data Centers Primary source, official · fortworthtexas.gov
January 12, 2027 City Council Meeting: Second public hearing and first reading of the proposed ordinance in the legal process to enact a moratorium on data center development.
City of Fort Worth, Data Centers Primary source, official · fortworthtexas.gov

Questions about this decision

Answered from the record itself. Every answer is assembled from stored fields, so an answer the record has no basis for is left out rather than guessed.

What is this decision?

The Fort Worth City Council took three data center votes on August 11th, 2026. Members unanimously approved the first steps toward a 90 day moratorium on accepting, processing and approving new data center applications inside the city. Two further items passed over a single dissent. One creates a Data Center and Infrastructure Commission. The other amends the city code so applicants must document their filings for connection to the Texas grid. The pause is not in force yet. Under the city timeline it takes effect on February 16th after public hearings and further votes, and zoning applications filed before then stay outside it. The city held the first public hearing at its November 10th meeting. It has set the second hearing and the first reading for January 12th, 2027, and says the soonest the council can enact the pause is February 2027, by a supermajority. The commission made 19 recommendations, five of them on water.

Who decides it?

Fort Worth City Council decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.

Can the public take part?

The moratorium needs further notices, hearings and readings before a vote, so residents can speak at the remaining Fort Worth City Council hearings ahead of the second reading. The city's own data center page carries the timeline and the commission's final report.

Where in Texas does it apply?

It covers Tarrant County in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX area.

Has it been decided?

Its status on the record is open.

What happens next?

The next dated step is hearing, on January 12th, in 58 days.

When did it start?

The earliest date on its record is August 11th, 2026.

What kind of decision is it?

It is filed under land, water and permitting.

What sources back it?

Three sources back it. One of them is primary.

Is it on the ERCOT grid?

Yes. It sits inside the ERCOT interconnection.

When was it last checked?

Every fact on it was last verified against its source on November 15th, 2026.

Cite this

Texas AI Docket, Fort Worth City Council unanimously began a 90 day data center moratorium and adopted grid filing requirements over one dissent. Tracked since August 11th, 2026. Last verified November 15th, 2026. https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0062/. Reuse permitted under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. The same entry is in the docket JSON as item tx-2026-0062.

Beat

Filed under Land, water and permitting, with every other decision on that beat.

Last checked 2026-11-15