Residents frustrated with energy company demand details about data center’s carbon footprint

North Texans demanded an energy conglomerate provide information about how plans to build a $10 billion data center in southeast Fort Worth will affect homes and natural resources.

Residents, including those from Forest Hill, packed a March 12 town hall hosted by Black Mountain where CEO Rhett Bennett and Bob Riley, a consultant with engineering firm Halff, presented a site plan.

The town hall came after Fort Worth City Council members tabled a vote Tuesday to approve additional rezoning that would give Black Mountain an additional 80 acres for its use. The company requested the delay so it could complete a report describing how the data center campus would impact the city’s infrastructure, Riley said…

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