North Texas communities push back on the data center boom as Texas leads the nation in construction

SOMERVELL COUNTY, Texas — Brian Crawford doesn’t need to say much to make his point. Standing on his ranch along the Somervell-Hood County line, he cuts the engine and listens.

“Nothing except birds, right?”

That quiet could soon be history. A 2,600-acre data center development called Comanche Circle is proposed just past his fence line — and Crawford says what’s at stake in the area goes beyond noise…

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