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BREWSTER COUNTY

Speaking Up Works

Across the country, neighbors are stopping gas plants and data centers like the one proposed for Brewster County. Here’s how they did it.

$260 billion

in data center investment was canceled in 2026 after sustained local opposition, and about half of the projects that met local backlash this year were canceled (Heatmap News, Oct. 6, 2026).

Gas plants stopped

HOOD COUNTY, TEXAS

A 2-gigawatt gas plant for a data center, withdrawn

NRG pulled its state air permit application for the Tolar Power Center, a 2-gigawatt gas plant meant to power a data center, after residents organized as Protect the Paluxy Valley filed more than 11,000 public comments with state regulators and filled county meetings (KERA, June 25, 2026). Then on Oct. 13, after hours of resident testimony, Hood County commissioners rejected a settlement with the data center’s developer and denied its permit appeal (Texas Public Radio, Oct. 13, 2026).

QUINCY, WASHINGTON

A gas plant for data centers, dropped overnight

Texas-based VoltaGrid dropped a 14-generator gas plant meant to power a data center campus the day after local groups delivered more than 500 opposing comments to state regulators (KUOW, July 30, 2026).

PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA

Data centers and gas plants on 3,300 acres, denied

On Aug. 26, county supervisors voted 4–1 to deny rezoning for the La Osa Energy Center, 59 buildings of data centers and gas generation, after residents packed the hearing over water, wildlife, noise and power outages (Calo News).

Data centers stopped

HENDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS

A lake-draining data center, dropped

A developer dropped a data center that would have drawn 5 million gallons a day from Cedar Creek Reservoir, after a resident petition with thousands of signatures and new state standards from Gov. Abbott (The Texas Tribune, July 23, 2026).

LOVEJOY, GEORGIA

A 15-building data center between two schools, withdrawn

Neighbors stopped a 3.5-million-square-foot data center planned between two schools. The developer switched to homes, and the city moved to ban data centers in its zoning (Atlanta News First, Aug. 9, 2026).

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA

A data center next to homes, shelved

Shelved after more than 130 residents signed up to speak against it, some of whom hadn’t known a data center was planned next to their homes (ABC11, Aug. 16, 2026).

Stories from the past six months, newest additions at the top of each list. Know of another? Email info@nobigbenddc.org.

Brewster County has time to stop this — speak up now.

The same tools worked in each of these places: public comments, packed meetings and neighbors who showed up.

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