Benbrook Neighbors Erupt Over $1.1 Billion Veale Ranch Data Hub Plan

Dozens of Benbrook and west Fort Worth residents packed into Benbrook United Methodist Church on Monday night, grilling the details of a proposed $1.1 billion data center campus that City Hall is weighing for the Veale Ranch area. Neighbors said they felt shut out of key talks on tax breaks and the project’s appetite for power and water, and many are now organizing to speak up at the next City Council meeting. The church gathering has set the stage for a very public showdown as council members prepare to take up a formal incentive package later this month.

What’s being proposed

The developer, Edged, a unit of Endeavour, is pitching a two-phase, 186-acre data center campus at the southeast corner of Interstate 20 and Chapin School Road, with roughly…..

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