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Residents urge San Angelo council to impose one-year moratorium on data centers, citing water, transparency and noise concerns
Summary
Multiple residents urged the council to pause data center recruitment and approvals for at least one year, asking for written commitments from developer Skybox on uses, incentives and infrastructure, and raised questions on water use, contaminated runoff, noise limits and building massing.
Speakers during the public-comment period on March 3 urged the San Angelo City Council to impose a one-year moratorium on data center development while city staff and residents gather more information.
Heather Wiley, a District 3 resident, told the council that Texas is in the midst of a data-center boom and asked the city to pause new approvals "until more information is available and a deeper analysis of the ways the data center boom will affect the Texas grid, San Angelo electricity and gas rates, our water resources, our land, and the true benefit to the community." Wiley said she could not find needed information on the city's data center webpage and called for…
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