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Ellis County commissioners unanimously ask Texas Legislature for limited authority to regulate data centers
Summary
Ellis County commissioners unanimously approved a resolution urging the Texas Legislature to give counties limited authority to address data-center impacts, citing concerns about electricity, water use, noise and changes to agricultural land use.
Ellis County’s commissioners voted unanimously to adopt a resolution asking the Texas Legislature and state agencies to require greater transparency and give counties limited statutory authority to assess the infrastructure and resource impacts of large-scale data centers.
The resolution, presented and read into the record by Commissioner Louis Ponder, says that while data centers are critical infrastructure for commerce and national services, hyperscale facilities require “substantial electric generation, transmission capacity, and water resources” and that rapid, uncoordinated growth can threaten ERCOT grid…
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