A new data center is planned for the Denton County portion of Fort Worth.
What's happening?
Colovore filed a permit Sept. 22 with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations, a day after Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas environmental regulators must stop issuing new permits for data centers.
According to previous Community Impact reporting, the governor’s order expands an existing pause on data center development in the state. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, is conducting an audit of proposed data center projects.
Construction projects impacting at least one acre of land, including a data center, require a permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, according to previous reporting.
Industrial and construction projects also need air permits, and other permits may be required based on the specifics of the project.
The details
The filing states that the one-story data center will have four data halls with 42,000 square feet of screened equipment yard and one data center building that is 156,500 square feet with an administrative area. The estimated start date is Dec. 1 and the completion date is Dec. 1, 2028.
Colovore has data centers throughout the United States, including one in Austin. The interactive map on the website for the California-based company lists Fort Worth and Mesquite as under construction and Johnson County as a future planned data center.
Colovore’s website states AI and semiconductor manufacturers, financial services, logistics and Fortune 500 companies are nearby to the project, which is called DFW02. The company is already offering pre-leasing options for the data center.
The owner of the property is AIL Investment LP, which has an address of 9800 Hillwood Parkway, Ste. 300, in Hillwood’s AllianceTexas development. A spokesperson for Hillwood said there was no information to share at this time.
AIL Investment is also listed on a 326-unit apartment complex that is being built at SH 170 and North Beach Street in Fort Worth.
What else?
The filing for a new data center comes more than a month after Fort Worth City Council began the process to implement a 90-day moratorium on accepting, processing and approving new data center applications, according to previous reporting.
Council voted Aug. 11 to start the process, but the timeline doesn’t start two public hearings are held with public notices posted at least 30 days beforehand.
A public notice could be issued by Oct. 9, which means a public hearing could be held Nov. 10. The earliest council members can vote for a moratorium is at the Feb. 16, 2027, meeting, according to council documents.
