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Dimmit County tables MOU with ISS Mining and Blue Mining Fiber after water, tax‑abatement concerns
Summary
ISS Mining and Blue Mining Fiber asked Dimmit County for a nonbinding memorandum of understanding to pursue grants and site engineering for a proposed data center; commissioners raised concerns about groundwater use and a Chapter 312 tax‑abatement request and voted to table the MOU pending legal review.
ISS Mining and its regional partner Blue Mining Fiber returned to Dimmit County Commissioners Court seeking a nonbinding memorandum of understanding that would signal local interest and allow the companies to pursue grant funding and conduct site engineering for a proposed data‑center development.
Tom Flake, representing ISS Mining, told commissioners the project’s current best estimate for water use is about 300,000 gallons per day, and that the contracted site has more than 3,000,000 gallons per day of existing well capacity because it has been used previously to supply fracking and road‑construction…
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