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Denton City Council takes up a data center moratorium resolution and a schedule of the public hearings it would require

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An agenda item asked the Denton City Council to approve a resolution on a moratorium. It covers the acceptance and processing and approval of applications for data center development inside the city limits. The same item asked the council to approve a schedule for the notice and public hearings the moratorium would require. The city's legislative record shows no final action and the meeting minutes for August 18th, 2026 are not finalized. Denton runs its own municipal electric utility, so a moratorium here is a city deciding whether to keep taking applications for loads it would have to serve itself.

How to take part

Denton City Council meetings are open to the public and the city publishes its agendas and legislative records through its own legislative portal. The resolution itself would set the schedule for the notice and public hearings a moratorium requires.

Where to do it

Where

1 county. In Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington.

Timeline

  1. hearing

    Data center moratorium resolution placed on the City Council agenda

  2. 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.

  1. 2026-08-22

    The agenda item asks the council to approve the moratorium resolution. The city's legislative record shows no final action and the August 18th minutes are not finalized.

  2. 2026-08-27

    Checked and unchanged. The resolution is still on the council's legislative record with its final action field blank, so nothing has been adopted and nothing has been rejected.

  3. 2026-08-30

    The Denton resolution is still waiting. No new date has been set for it and the schedule of public hearings attached to it has not moved.

  4. 2026-09-01

    Denton's data-center moratorium resolution and hearing schedule remain before the city council.

  5. 2026-09-02

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

  6. 2026-09-05

    Denton still has the moratorium resolution and its schedule of required public hearings in front of it. No hearing has been held.

The evidence

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

Consider approval of a resolution of the City of Denton regarding a moratorium on the acceptance, processing, and approval of applications for the development of data centers within the corporate limits of the City of Denton and approving a schedule for required notice and public hearings for such moratorium; providing for severability; and providing an effective date.
City of Denton, legislation detail for File ID 26-1287 Primary source, official · denton-tx.legistar.com
Please note: this meeting's minutes have not been finalized yet. Actions taken on legislation and their results are not available.
City of Denton, meeting detail for August 18th, 2026 Primary source, official · denton-tx.legistar.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?

An agenda item asked the Denton City Council to approve a resolution on a moratorium. It covers the acceptance and processing and approval of applications for data center development inside the city limits. The same item asked the council to approve a schedule for the notice and public hearings the moratorium would require. The city's legislative record shows no final action and the meeting minutes for August 18th, 2026 are not finalized. Denton runs its own municipal electric utility, so a moratorium here is a city deciding whether to keep taking applications for loads it would have to serve itself.

Who decides it?

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

Can the public take part?

Denton City Council meetings are open to the public and the city publishes its agendas and legislative records through its own legislative portal. The resolution itself would set the schedule for the notice and public hearings a moratorium requires.

Where in Texas does it apply?

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

Has it been decided?

It is pending. No final decision is on the record.

What happens next?

No future date is on the record. The last dated step on it was hearing on August 18th.

When did it start?

The earliest date on its record is August 18th, 2026.

What kind of decision is it?

It is filed under data centers.

What sources back it?

Two sources back it. Two of them are 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 September 5th, 2026.

Cite this

Texas AI Docket, Denton City Council takes up a data center moratorium resolution and a schedule of the public hearings it would require. Tracked since August 18th, 2026. Last verified September 5th, 2026. https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0087/. Reuse permitted under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. The same entry is in the docket JSON as item tx-2026-0087.

Beat

Filed under Data centers, with every other decision on that beat.

Last checked 2026-09-05