By Trey Wilson, Texas Real Estate and Water Lawyer · Published October 2026 The State’s utility regulator has sued the Attorney General to keep two pieces of information about Texas data centers out of public view: the county each facility is in, and the regional water planning area it draws from. The headlines say the…
By Trey Wilson, Texas Real Estate and Water Lawyer · Published October 2026 The Texas Attorney General is investigating hundreds of data center developments for failing to report their water use to the State. If a data center is planned or running near your land, the investigation raises the question you have been asking all…
By Trey Wilson, Texas Real Estate and Water Lawyer · Published October 2026 The land agent was polite. The letter says the company wants to be a good neighbor, there is a check attached to a signature line, and the deadline is two weeks out. Before you sign a data center neighbor agreement, you need…
The San Antonio Data Center Lawsuit Won’t Pay the Neighbors. Texas Nuisance Law Might. What the Vantage and VoltaGrid Clean Air Act Case Means for Texas Landowners Living Next to a Data Center Power Plant On September 21, 2026, two national environmental groups sued the companies behind two data center campuses on San Antonio’s far…
By Trey Wilson, Texas Real Estate and Water Lawyer · Published September 2026 The developer does not want to buy your land. It wants to lease it for 40 years, maybe 70 with extensions, and it has sent a letter of intent with a rent number that looks very good. Before you sign, understand what…
By Trey Wilson, Texas Real Estate and Water Lawyer · Published September 2026 · Local information last reviewed September 2026 Drive west on U.S. 90 out of San Antonio and the change is hard to miss. Land that was pasture and row crops a few years ago is fenced, graded, and under construction. If you…
By Trey Wilson, Texas Real Estate and Water Lawyer · Published September 2026 You just learned the land next door is going to a data center. Maybe you saw survey stakes, maybe a neighbor told you at the feed store, maybe it was on the commissioners court agenda. The first question almost everyone asks me…
By Trey Wilson, Texas Real Estate and Water Lawyer · Updated August 26, 2026 Across Texas, local governments are reaching for whatever authority they think they have to slow or stop data center development. Some of those tools are solid. Some are symbolic. At least one has already cost a county money. Here is my…
Governor Abbott Paused Texas Data Centers: What It Means for Landowners (and What It Doesn’t) Updated August 26, 2026. This is a developing situation, and the details will keep changing as the state audit runs. Since early August I have fielded a version of the same question from landowners across South and Central Texas: “The…
Will a Data Center Next Door Lower My Property Value? A Texas Landowner’s Guide to Diminished Value, Stigma, the Proof That Actually Wins, and What Happens When You Sell You have watched the announcements, the rezoning notices, and the survey trucks, and now a data center is going up within sight of your land. The…
Will a Data Center Drain My Water Well? A Texas Landowner’s Guide to Groundwater Ownership, the Rule of Capture, and Where You Actually Have Leverage When a Data Center Comes for the Water Your well has produced clean water for as long as you have owned the place, maybe longer than anyone in the family…
What if Data Center Lights or Noise Are Driving Me Crazy? A Texas Landowner’s Guide to Private Nuisance, the Crosstex Standard, and When a Data Center’s Hum and Glare Cross the Line The data center went online, and now your nights are different. A low mechanical hum rolls off the cooling banks and never stops,…
What Happens When Data Center Construction Floods My Land? A Texas Landowner’s Resource Guide to Surface Water Diversion, Water Code Section 11.086, and Drainage Claims Against Data Center Developers A developer strips the vegetation off a hundred acres next to you, regrades the whole tract so it falls toward your fence line, pours concrete pads…