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August Updates:
Tuesday, August 18th: Coalition member presented a request to the council to add a moratorium to the agenda or to add it to the November 3rd ballot. This is the second request for a moratorium. The amended moratorium and updated community signature list was emailed to every council member before the August 18th meeting.
Tuesday, August 4th: City Council passes agenda item for Harry Thomas' recall election to be held November 3, 2026.
Monday, August 3rd: Coalition members turned in recall petition for Councilman Joe Self.
Tuesday, August 4th: City Council passes agenda item for Harry Thomas' recall election to be held November 3, 2026.
Monday, August 3rd: Coalition members turned in recall petition for Councilman Joe Self.
July Updates:
Wednesday, July 15th: Recall petition for Councilman Harry Thomas was submitted to San Angelo City Clerk.
Tuesday, July 7th: City Council discusses tax abatements in "closed session" where the public is excluded.
Tuesday, July 7th: City Council discusses tax abatements in "closed session" where the public is excluded.
June Updates:
Wednesday, June 22nd: Recall petition for Mayor Tom Thompson submitted to San Angelo City Clerk. Recall effort failed.
Tuesday, June 16th: City Council passes second reading of water ordinances for data centers. City Council discusses tax abatements in "closed session" where public is excluded. Coalition volunteer mentioned the Lone Star Infrastucture Protection Act and compliance before any data centers were approved by the city council.
Sunday, June 7th: Residents and coalition members discover proposed 380 Agreement set on March 31st; the press also catches this news and San Angelo Live reports on it, allowing the City to claim it is a draft.
Thursday, June 4th: Recall petition filed for Councilman Joe Self.
Tuesday, June 2nd: Second Reading of Waste Water Discharge. Passed by the council 6-0. Tabled the Water Use Ordinance relating to Data Centers.
Tuesday, June 16th: City Council passes second reading of water ordinances for data centers. City Council discusses tax abatements in "closed session" where public is excluded. Coalition volunteer mentioned the Lone Star Infrastucture Protection Act and compliance before any data centers were approved by the city council.
Sunday, June 7th: Residents and coalition members discover proposed 380 Agreement set on March 31st; the press also catches this news and San Angelo Live reports on it, allowing the City to claim it is a draft.
Thursday, June 4th: Recall petition filed for Councilman Joe Self.
Tuesday, June 2nd: Second Reading of Waste Water Discharge. Passed by the council 6-0. Tabled the Water Use Ordinance relating to Data Centers.
May Updates:
Friday, May 29th: Recall petition filed for Councilman Harry Thomas
Friday, May 22nd: Volunteer from the Coalition emailed the entire council including the mayor and clerk regarding the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act asking for compliance before any data centers were approved. Their email was never replied to by any council member.
Tuesday, May 19th: Second reading of land-use guidelines. Passed by the City Council. First reading of Waste Water Discharge. Passed. First reading of Water Use Ordinance relating to Data Centers. Passed.
Tuesday, May 5th: First reading of the land-use guidelines discussed with Planning Commission with FEWER restriction passed the Planning Commission and went to the City Council. Moratorium request was presented to the City Council by the Coalition with the No Data Center petition signatures to date.
Friday, May 22nd: Volunteer from the Coalition emailed the entire council including the mayor and clerk regarding the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act asking for compliance before any data centers were approved. Their email was never replied to by any council member.
Tuesday, May 19th: Second reading of land-use guidelines. Passed by the City Council. First reading of Waste Water Discharge. Passed. First reading of Water Use Ordinance relating to Data Centers. Passed.
Tuesday, May 5th: First reading of the land-use guidelines discussed with Planning Commission with FEWER restriction passed the Planning Commission and went to the City Council. Moratorium request was presented to the City Council by the Coalition with the No Data Center petition signatures to date.
April Updates:
Monday, April 20th: Tom Green County Commissioners call for enhanced data center regulations through a variety of means. This localized resolution passed with a unanimous vote.
Joint Commission Meeting with City and Planning Commission was moved to May (announced at Monday meeting).
Joint Commission Meeting with City and Planning Commission was moved to May (announced at Monday meeting).
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Friday, April 17th: As of this date, the outstanding City of San Angelo TPIA requests are for all questions submitted for the Skybox forum; curators' name, title, and employer; detailed description of the full curation process.
Thursday, April 9th: Emergent Data Centers added a brochure identifying a 1.2 GW AI Data Center in San Angelo, Texas with two planned phases. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6970f5e1e1187035b2437d0c/t/697c70fc0770a26bcea933d7/1769763068323/EDC+San+Angelo+Brochure.pdf
Discovered Skybox Data Centers donated $25,000 to Greg Abbot: https://www.transparencyusa.org/tx/contributor/skybox-datacenters-llc/
Tuesday, April 7th: Shawn Nanny shared that Beacon Data Centers is in the early stages of exploring an AI data center in the Dove Creek area (across from the Four56 Church). The community needs to attend a meeting on April 16th at 6:30 pm at the Four56 Church to express their opinion about this potential project.
Sunday, April 5th: Information from the second FOIA request has revealed the letters referenced in the Planning Commission Meeting from March were:
- mailed only to properties zoned Light Manufacturing (ML) and Heavy Manufacturing (MH). These properties are business owners, not residents, and businesses that are typically high in noise, dust, vibration, pollution, some more intense that a data center, so it is not surprising that there wouldn't be much opposition.
- most of the ML and MH properties are next to the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) not in the City. So, none of these people - like the neighbors in Harriet - would have received notification. While not required, many cities on controversial projects like data centers will over-notify so that the people directly next to the facility are aware of what's going on. The City of San Angelo chose not to do this. Also, the zoning within the city limits that mainly adjoins ML and MH are properties zoned Ranch and Estate (R&E), which is mainly on the east side of town along Highway 67 close to where Skybox is locating, and north of the City on Covington Road north of the Landfill. Who owns this R&E land? The City. So of course, since the City is in support of data centers, they too, are not going to write letters opposed to the project.
- The city sent out most of the letters to industrial landowners and themselves (the City of San Angelo). That still would have been “acceptable” had more opportunities for the public to participate been instituted. The people of Harriet to the east end of the map are right next to the ML zoned Skybox property. They did did not receive any notice and were not invited to any public meeting with the City.
Thursday, April 9th: Emergent Data Centers added a brochure identifying a 1.2 GW AI Data Center in San Angelo, Texas with two planned phases. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6970f5e1e1187035b2437d0c/t/697c70fc0770a26bcea933d7/1769763068323/EDC+San+Angelo+Brochure.pdf
Discovered Skybox Data Centers donated $25,000 to Greg Abbot: https://www.transparencyusa.org/tx/contributor/skybox-datacenters-llc/
Tuesday, April 7th: Shawn Nanny shared that Beacon Data Centers is in the early stages of exploring an AI data center in the Dove Creek area (across from the Four56 Church). The community needs to attend a meeting on April 16th at 6:30 pm at the Four56 Church to express their opinion about this potential project.
Sunday, April 5th: Information from the second FOIA request has revealed the letters referenced in the Planning Commission Meeting from March were:
- mailed only to properties zoned Light Manufacturing (ML) and Heavy Manufacturing (MH). These properties are business owners, not residents, and businesses that are typically high in noise, dust, vibration, pollution, some more intense that a data center, so it is not surprising that there wouldn't be much opposition.
- most of the ML and MH properties are next to the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) not in the City. So, none of these people - like the neighbors in Harriet - would have received notification. While not required, many cities on controversial projects like data centers will over-notify so that the people directly next to the facility are aware of what's going on. The City of San Angelo chose not to do this. Also, the zoning within the city limits that mainly adjoins ML and MH are properties zoned Ranch and Estate (R&E), which is mainly on the east side of town along Highway 67 close to where Skybox is locating, and north of the City on Covington Road north of the Landfill. Who owns this R&E land? The City. So of course, since the City is in support of data centers, they too, are not going to write letters opposed to the project.
- The city sent out most of the letters to industrial landowners and themselves (the City of San Angelo). That still would have been “acceptable” had more opportunities for the public to participate been instituted. The people of Harriet to the east end of the map are right next to the ML zoned Skybox property. They did did not receive any notice and were not invited to any public meeting with the City.
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Regardless of one's position regarding data centers, it is clear that the average person in San Angelo was not given proper notice about this project. The City of San Angelo met the bare minimum, but failed to include the public until recently and only after public pressure was placed to be more inclusive. The right approach would have been to invite the public to these Committee meetings. Or they could have had a separate meeting just for the public to be engaged and assist with designing the new data center guidelines, and other new zoning initiatives by the city, including the three new zoning districts for smaller residential lot sizes that could help get more affordable housing or the new zoning could do nothing we don't know because we were not invited, and now the Planning Director chooses to have only one public meeting instead of the normal two. Public participation is fundamental to the planning process. Is this the kind of government we want? We, the citizens of San Angelo, deserve better. These actions give all appearances that the City does not care for the average citizen or how they may suffer from decisions made about bringing this data center into our community, and not to mention the subtle hints of mass expansion for future planned data centers. Email your district rep, and include the mayor and city clerk. Ask for a halt on data centers based on the complete lack of transparency and mistrust of decision making according to the information now confirmed.
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March Updates:
Thursday, March 26th: Second FOIA request submitted.
Tuesday, March 17th: Planning and Zoning Committee met to discuss potential zoning restrictions for the data center.
The Committee decided restrictions against the data center, while well researched and presented, were unfair to Skybox and future data centers. Some board members wanted more community input. Letters were sent to community members, some of the replies were referenced - Aaron Vannoy said they received 30 out of 1, 100 letters send out. Vannoy state that one person was opposed, five were in favor of zoning changes, and one was opposed to regulations. He did not explain the other 23 letters. Residents of the Harriet community, neighboring the proposed data center site, did not receive letters even though they fall into Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ). The ordinance has been tabled before it can reach the joint meeting with City Council in April.
Tuesday, March 17th: Planning and Zoning Committee met to discuss potential zoning restrictions for the data center.
The Committee decided restrictions against the data center, while well researched and presented, were unfair to Skybox and future data centers. Some board members wanted more community input. Letters were sent to community members, some of the replies were referenced - Aaron Vannoy said they received 30 out of 1, 100 letters send out. Vannoy state that one person was opposed, five were in favor of zoning changes, and one was opposed to regulations. He did not explain the other 23 letters. Residents of the Harriet community, neighboring the proposed data center site, did not receive letters even though they fall into Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ). The ordinance has been tabled before it can reach the joint meeting with City Council in April.
February Updates:
Saturday, February 28th: San Angelo Data Center Citizen Coalition meeting at the Main Library to discuss information that we've uncovered so far, how we're showing up to meetings, and what we can still do as a community.
Tuesday, February 17th: City Council Meeting to address zoning change. Members of this citizen coalition spoke against the zoning change. The zoning change passed.
Some citizen attendees to the technology forum to hear about the data center and potentially speak to Skybox. Skybox was not there.
Thursday, February 5th: Release of approximately 35 documents relating to an impact study from FOIA request and none since. The AG Review has been requested. Release of about 270 documents regarding process documents and none since. AG Review requested for this release.
Tuesday, February 3rd: Members of the public made statements against the data center, asking for more information. Many of the questions have not been answered.
Informed FOIA request had been sent to the Texas Attorney General's office.
Tuesday, February 17th: City Council Meeting to address zoning change. Members of this citizen coalition spoke against the zoning change. The zoning change passed.
Some citizen attendees to the technology forum to hear about the data center and potentially speak to Skybox. Skybox was not there.
Thursday, February 5th: Release of approximately 35 documents relating to an impact study from FOIA request and none since. The AG Review has been requested. Release of about 270 documents regarding process documents and none since. AG Review requested for this release.
Tuesday, February 3rd: Members of the public made statements against the data center, asking for more information. Many of the questions have not been answered.
Informed FOIA request had been sent to the Texas Attorney General's office.
January Updates:
Tuesday, January 13th: Full city council meeting. Many members of the public make comments about the data center. Many of the questions asked during the public comments have not been answered. The city made a data center information page to try to promote transparency, but did not answer specific questions there.
FOIA request submitted regarding the data center.
FOIA request submitted regarding the data center.
