Commissioner Exposes City's Data Center Project Deception

0:00It's April 22nd. I'm Cory with the story. This is Dallas News Today, driven by AI. Hood County Commissioner Nanette Samuelson is calling out Grandbury City leaders for allegedly hiding details on a power plant tied to a massive data. Center Project, the plant from Dallas-based bilateral energy, is planned for over 2,000 acres the city annexed back in January. Samuelson says officials misrepresent effects to downplay the whole thing. Now dubbed, Project Patriot. Earlier this week, at a Special Commissioner's Court meeting, she laid it all out with documents the county got in June 2025 from. Grandbury's economic development team. Those papers spell out the power plant in data center campus clearly. Then in July, bilateral energy snag a permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to build it. Residents aren't buying the city's story either. They filed a lawsuit back on April 6th against the city manager, mayor, and council. They're pushing for a permanent

1:00injunction, a temporary restraining order, and even to undo that annexation. The suit claims the city dodged public records request, despite orders from Attorney General Ken Paxton, and that officials broke quorum rules on A. Dallas data center tour in early January. Samuelson zeroed in on statements from the city manager during a January 6th council meeting where he claimed no clue about the project or key. Players involved, she called it straight up misleading, especially since Project Patriot popped up on agendas as early as July 8th. Is it incompetence or delivered deception, she wonders. This public class shines a light on tensions over booming data centers in the area, with Samuelson vowing not to let officials mislead folks wow. She's watching the county's future unfold.