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Hood County debate over data centers intensifies as residents press court to require unified master plans
Summary
Residents, engineers and lawyers urged Hood County commissioners to deny or return concept plans for Project Lion and Project Panther, arguing they are segmented parts of a larger Comanche Circle industrial complex and lack verified water sources, drainage studies and cumulative impact analysis. Commissioners instructed staff to pursue drafting regulatory updates and a procedural review.
Hood County’s commissioners spent a substantial portion of their April 14 meeting hearing from residents, engineers and outside counsel who argued the filings for Project Lion and Project Panther are pieces of a larger industrial buildout and should be treated in the aggregate.
Multiple speakers — including neighborhood residents, retired engineers and water‑resource experts — said the concept plans lack required, verifiable information on water supply, drainage and grid impacts and that the developer’s use of separate LLCs creates a segmentation strategy that bypasses comprehensive review. “These are not standalone projects,” said one speaker; others showed conceptual…
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