Hill County, TX

September 10, 2026

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August 28, 2026

Hill County's May moratorium drew a $100M developer suit and a rescission inside a week; Hood County pulled its own freeze after state Sen. Paul Bettencourt questioned county authority; Bettencourt calls the San Marcos zoning ban illegal.

June 30, 2026

Hill County rescinded its moratorium after a developer sued for $100 million, and Hood County backed off after Bettencourt asked the Attorney General whether counties can restrict data centers at all.

June 12, 2026

Hill County's moratorium drew a $100 million lawsuit and was rescinded.

June 10, 2026

Hill County passed what's described as Texas's first datacenter moratorium in May.

June 6, 2026

Hill County just rescinded its moratorium after RCM Hill LLC sued over its 1,235 MW Project Aquila, citing ERCOT Batch Zero exposure as the central harm.

June 4, 2026

Hill County already paused construction for a year.

June 1, 2026

A San Marcos Record op-ed cites Hill County's one-year rural data center pause as Texas precedent and benchmarks against Texas agriculture's $900 billion annual output.

May 31, 2026

RCM Hill LLC filed a $100 million federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging Hill County's yearlong moratorium on data center and power plant construction, the first county-level moratorium of its kind in Texas.

May 27, 2026

Hill County commissioners approved a one-year data center moratorium this month.

May 26, 2026

Red Oak rezoned 800 acres for a data center project this month over local opposition; days later, Hill County imposed a moratorium on data center projects entirely.

May 23, 2026

In Texas, Red Oak approved 800 acres of agricultural rezoning while Hill County imposed a moratorium the same month.

May 21, 2026

Hill County's already approved a one-year moratorium.

May 17, 2026

Hill County commissioners voted 3-2 to impose a one-year moratorium on new datacenter construction in unincorporated areas, the first Texas county-level pause of its kind, with the 300-acre Provident Data Centers project in north Hillsboro as the trigger.

May 15, 2026

The application lands the same week Hill County's commissioners voted 3-2 for a one-year datacenter moratorium and a UT-Austin paper projected datacenters could consume 3-9% of Texas water by 2040.