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Volunteers warn Parker County may lack fire capacity for large data‑center fires involving lithium batteries
Summary
A resident and volunteer firefighter warned that data centers with lithium battery systems pose a serious local fire risk and that Parker County lacks capacity to fight a blaze at a campus of the scale described without additional resources or requirements on operators.
A resident who said her husband serves as a volunteer firefighter told the commissioners court that a large data center with lithium batteries would present extreme fire hazards that exceed local response capacity.
“We are not equipped in this county to fight a fire at a facility of this size,” the resident said, urging the court to consider fire‑response limitations and require operators to be responsible for recycling and cleanup costs. Commissioners acknowledged the concern and flagged it as part of the list of issues staff will address and post on the county website.
