Data centers in Hill County, Texas: 2 projects mapped

2 projects tracked

2 proposed or being built

600 MW from the one active project that reports a figure

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Hill County, about 55 miles south of Fort Worth, became the first Texas county to try a data center moratorium, and dropped it within weeks under a lawsuit. On May 12, 2026, commissioners voted 3-2 to pause new data center construction in unincorporated areas for up to a year. "The data center folks have found a sweet spot in the state that has limited regulations, limited enforcement, limited code, and they're coming faster than we can keep up with," Commissioner Jim Holcomb said. County Judge Shane Brassell told the Texas Tribune he knew of at least eight projects in the works, mostly by word of mouth about farmers selling land, because developers do not have to tell the county. County Attorney David Holmes warned before the vote: "You're damned if you and damned if you don't."

On May 27 a developer, RCM Hill LLC, sued the county in federal court in Austin for $100 million, saying it had contracts to buy more than 800 acres and that the county "exceeded its lawful powers"; Texas counties, unlike cities, generally have no zoning authority. On June 4 commissioners voted unanimously to rescind the moratorium and instead adopt a checklist data center developers must complete. Brassell still called the pause a success: "some projects that were less desirable, as far as maybe not the most honest, they left the county."

The largest project on record is in Hubbard. Nexus Data Centers, backed by the private equity firm Transition Equity Partners, has registered two buildings at 357 HCR 3372 with the state licensing agency, Apex DFW HB1 and HB2, each 491,380 square feet and $400 million, with construction running from January 2026 to early 2028. DCD reported that Nexus is targeting a 600-megawatt campus powered by natural gas on site, and that Google is reportedly backing it to serve Anthropic.

Inside Hillsboro, the county seat, the question is the city's own land. Provident Realty Advisors of Dallas has under contract just under 300 acres owned by the Hillsboro Economic Development Corporation on the old city airport north of town. Because the site is inside city limits and zoned heavy industrial, it cannot proceed without a development agreement approved by the city. A crowd, many opposed, filled a two-hour forum with City Manager Megan Henderson at Historic City Hall on April 28, the Hillsboro Reporter said; the contract's review period runs through November.

Data center projects on record in Hill County

Grouped by the town each site sits in. The report above may name projects that have no record here yet.

Hillsboro1

Project	Company	Status	Power
Provident Data CenterHillsboro	Provident Realty Advisors	Proposed	Not reported

Hubbard1

Project	Company	Status	Power
Nexus Data Center: Apex DFW HB1 and HB2Hubbard	Nexus Data Centers	Under construction	600 MW

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