Tom Green County Commissioners Court declines a Precinct 4 moratorium on data centers and large energy projects
The Tom Green County Commissioners Court voted not to pursue a temporary moratorium on large scale energy and data center development in Precinct 4. The court acted after hearing a presentation from Beacon Data Centers on its proposed Westline site at Dove Creek, west of San Angelo. Commissioner Shawn Nanny pointed to a $100 million lawsuit filed against Hill County after that county approved a similar one year pause. The result is that the unincorporated part of the county has no local pause. The city of San Angelo has three adopted data center ordinances, and they apply only inside its own limits. That split is the whole local story in Texas, where counties have no general zoning power and cities do.
How to take part
Tom Green County Commissioners Court meets in open session at the county courthouse in San Angelo and posts agendas under the Texas Open Meetings Act. The moratorium item reached the agenda because it was placed there. The county's own website returned a server error when fetched, so the URL given here is the report of the meeting rather than the county's agenda page.
Where
1 county. In San Angelo.
Timeline
- ordered
Commissioners Court declined to advance the Precinct 4 moratorium
- Today
How this decision moved
One dated line per check, oldest first. A line that says nothing changed means somebody looked and it had not.
- 2026-08-19
Checked and unchanged. The court still declines to pursue a temporary moratorium on large scale energy and data center development in Precinct 4. The reasoning given remains the limits of county authority and the risk of litigation.
- 2026-08-22
Checked and unchanged. The court still declines to pursue a temporary moratorium on large scale energy and data center development in Precinct 4. The reasoning given is still the limits of county authority.
- 2026-08-25
Checked and unchanged. The decision still stands as decided.
- 2026-08-28
Checked and unchanged. Tom Green County still has no moratorium in Precinct 4, so the Westline site at Dove Creek is still subject only to the rules a county already holds.
- 2026-09-01
Tom Green County's decision not to impose the proposed moratorium remains in effect.
- 2026-09-02
Checked and unchanged. The decision still stands as decided.
- 2026-09-05
Tom Green County's refusal of a Precinct 4 moratorium still stands. No new moratorium has been proposed.
- 2026-09-08
Tom Green County's refusal of a Precinct 4 moratorium still stands, and no successor proposal has reached the commissioners court.
- 2026-09-09
Tom Green County's refusal of a Precinct 4 moratorium still stands, and no new moratorium has been placed before the court.
- 2026-09-12
Checked and unchanged. The decision still stands as decided.
- 2026-09-13
Checked and unchanged. The decision still stands as decided.
- 2026-09-16
The Tom Green County court still declines to impose the Precinct 4 moratorium. The refusal stands and nothing has been refiled.
- 2026-09-19
The court still has no moratorium in that precinct, and nothing has come back to it.
- 2026-09-23
Tom Green County has not returned to the moratorium it declined.
- 2026-09-26
Tom Green County has not returned to the Precinct 4 moratorium it declined.
- 2026-09-29
Tom Green County has left the declined Precinct 4 moratorium where it was and taken up no substitute.
The evidence
Every fact above rests on one of these. The words are the source's own.
SAN ANGELO, Texas — The Tom Green County Commissioners' Court voted Tuesday not to pursue a temporary moratorium on large-scale energy and data center development in Precinct 4 after hearing a presentation from Beacon Data Centers about its proposed Westline Site in Dove Creek.Tom Green County Commissioners Reject Data Center Moratorium, San Angelo LIVE!, June 2, 2026 Journalism · sanangelolive.com
Commissioner Shawn Nanny referenced a recent $100 million lawsuit filed against Hill County after it approved a similar one-year moratorium.Tom Green County Commissioners Reject Data Center Moratorium, San Angelo LIVE!, June 2, 2026 Journalism · sanangelolive.com
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 Tom Green County Commissioners Court voted not to pursue a temporary moratorium on large scale energy and data center development in Precinct 4. The court acted after hearing a presentation from Beacon Data Centers on its proposed Westline site at Dove Creek, west of San Angelo. Commissioner Shawn Nanny pointed to a $100 million lawsuit filed against Hill County after that county approved a similar one year pause. The result is that the unincorporated part of the county has no local pause. The city of San Angelo has three adopted data center ordinances, and they apply only inside its own limits. That split is the whole local story in Texas, where counties have no general zoning power and cities do.
Who decides it?
Tom Green County Commissioners Court decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.
Can the public take part?
Tom Green County Commissioners Court meets in open session at the county courthouse in San Angelo and posts agendas under the Texas Open Meetings Act. The moratorium item reached the agenda because it was placed there. The county's own website returned a server error when fetched, so the URL given here is the report of the meeting rather than the county's agenda page.
Where in Texas does it apply?
It covers Tom Green County in the San Angelo, TX area.
Has it been decided?
It has been decided. The dates on the item page carry when.
What happens next?
No future date is on the record. The last dated step on it was ordered on June 2nd.
When did it start?
The earliest date on its record is June 2nd, 2026.
What kind of decision is it?
It is filed under data centers.
What sources back it?
One source backs it.
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 September 29th, 2026.
Cite this
Texas AI Docket, Tom Green County Commissioners Court declines a Precinct 4 moratorium on data centers and large energy projects. Tracked since June 2nd, 2026. Last verified September 29th, 2026. https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0070/. Reuse permitted under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. The same entry is in the docket JSON as item tx-2026-0070.
Beat
Filed under Data centers, with every other decision on that beat.