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.
Dates
| Date | What | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | ordered | Commissioners Court declined to advance the Precinct 4 moratorium |
The evidence
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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
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