May 17, 2026
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Hill County Wants State Rules. Smart Developers Will Help Write Them.
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 14, 2026
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Hill County Draws the Line. Eight Projects Now Wait a Year.
The trigger was a proposed 300-acre Provident Data Centers facility in north Hillsboro, with eight large projects already in development countywide.
April 19, 2026
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Anchored Offtake Wins the Queue. Speculation Gets Repriced.
Hillsboro's GO Summit surfaced the Texas answer: BVRT Utility's John Littlefield proposed reclaimed wastewater from the state's roughly 1,200 municipal treatment plants as a cooling source.