Kent commission entertains Crusoe application, tables vote on new tax reinvestment zone
Town hall, public hearing focus of data center proposal
DATADECISIONS Competing concerns of property owners, citizens and business interests faced the Kent County commissioners court out of the blue this month, as a fast-moving AI data center industry turned its sights on a site in the northwest part of the county. Speaking before commission members (from left) County Judge Layne Coulter, Robert Graham, Ray Hall, Debbie Myers and Turney Coulter, with outside counsel Jake Lederle, was resident Amy Carr, who led a petition to protest the development. | TEXAS SPUR
CRUSOEENERGYSYSTEMS, represented by Morgan Alu (far left) and Jane Acker in a Sunday evening community meeting at the Jayton school, discussed early plans for its Project Kent, for which it is also requesting a tax abatement. The 978-acre site would encompass two data center buildings, parking areas, and detention ponds for slowing stormwater drainage, according to a preliminary plan shown at the meeting. | TEXAS SPUR
The debate spun up faster than a West Texas tornado, with a proposed 590-gigawatt AI data center touching down suddenly at the center of property, water, environment and tax policy issues in the 6th-l…
