A data centre campus with its own power plant, negotiated in closed session
Abilene's City Council has spent a year approving tax abatements, site infrastructure agreements and zoning for a data centre campus operated by Lancium, running through numbered companies - Abilene DC 1 and DC 3 to DC 10, each tied to a numbered phase - plus Abilene DC TPP, LLC, which the City's own agenda calls an Electricity Generation Plant. Most of it was discussed first under the business-prospect exception in Texas Government Code 551.087. That is lawful. It also means the negotiation happened in private and the agreements are the only public account of what was agreed.
The executed tax abatement agreements and second agreements with Lancium LLC and each Abilene DC entity, the Site Infrastructure Agreements approved 8 January 2026, the ordinance and boundary for Reinvestment Zone RZ25-1 (approximately 614.91 acres), and any water supply or utility service agreement they reference - all held by the City of Abilene.
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Why Abilene
Abilene's City Council has spent a year approving tax abatements, site infrastructure agreements and zoning for a data centre campus operated by Lancium, running through numbered companies - Abilene DC 1 and DC 3 to DC 10, each tied to a numbered phase - plus Abilene DC TPP, LLC, which the City's own agenda calls an Electricity Generation Plant. Most of it was discussed first under the business-prospect exception in Texas Government Code 551.087. That is lawful. It also means the negotiation happened in private and the agreements are the only public account of what was agreed.
The Move Weight Foundation's first chapter is a town of thirteen thousand people in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, and it now holds 522 archived meetings with machine transcripts. The second is San Angelo, Texas. The third is Southaven, Mississippi, where the City's own released documents show an ad valorem agreement abating two thirds of property tax on a recital of twenty new jobs. None of those started with a tip. They started with somebody reading the agenda.
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