Parker County Data — Pro Populo
Citizen-research on the Black Mountain Power LLC data-center project, the Fort Worth Power Core LLC statewide gas-plant network, and what they will cost Parker families. Mirrored on henrylee.vote; sourced and reproducible.
Resources
Interactive map
Toggle layers, click any Texas county for source-cited detail. Three switchable basemaps, six toggleable data layers, zoom + pan.
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Presentation deck
16-slide HTML deck for the June 8, 2026 Parker County Commissioners Court. Keyboard navigation, print-to-PDF supported.
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Full source code & data
R scripts, CSVs, PDFs, SQL — every number on this page traces to a file in the repository.
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What's in scope
- 2,075 acres at 501 Pearson Ranch Road — assembled under Black Mountain Power LLC. Parker County Appraisal District stripped the agricultural exemption on May 15, 2026.
- 75-megawatt natural-gas power plant — five turbines, 24/7 continuous operation. Approved by TCEQ in 2.5 weeks with no public process.
- Statewide context — the same operator (Fort Worth Power Core LLC) holds TCEQ air permits at 14 sites across 11 Texas counties. Parker is one of fourteen.
- Local cost — under an 80% Chapter 312 abatement, Parker County and its special districts give up roughly $30 million (Phase 1) to $364 million (full buildout) in revenue the state does not replace, over the 10-year term. The school-district portion is separate and largely state-backfilled, so it is not counted as a local loss. Data centers return as few as 10–75 permanent jobs.
- State-law constraint — HB 3 and SB 2 cap how fast the county can raise rates, so the foregone revenue can't be recovered later. It's a permanent reduction in local fiscal capacity — and the project still adds costs (water, roads, emergency response) the existing budget must absorb.
About this mirror
This page is a mirror of parker-data-pro-populo.github.io/data-center-surface-datarun/, hosted on henrylee.vote for local discoverability. All interactive content (map, slides, repository) is served from the canonical GitHub Pages site. The mirror reflects the state of the project as of June 2, 2026.