The phases, the LLCs and the power plant
Everything on this page comes from agendas the City of Abilene published itself. Every date links to the City’s own copy. Nothing here is an allegation — it is a reading list.
What the agendas show
Across 2025 and into 2026, Abilene City Council took up a data centre campus repeatedly — usually first in closed session under Texas Government Code § 551.087, the business-prospect exception, and then in open session as votes on tax abatement agreements, site infrastructure agreements and zoning.
The operator named throughout is Lancium. The counterparties are numbered companies: Abilene DC 1 and DC 3 through DC 10, each tied to a numbered Phase. There is also Abilene DC TPP, LLC, which the City’s own agenda describes in parentheses as an Electricity Generation Plant.
4 December 2025, item 17. Tax abatement agreements and second tax abatement agreements with “Lancium LLC and Abilene DC 9, LLC (Phase 9), … Abilene DC 10, LLC (Phase 10), and Abilene DC TPP, LLC (Electricity Generation Plant).” The same meeting created Reinvestment Zone No. RZ25-1, approximately 614.91 acres.
The sequence, with sources
| Date | What the agenda says |
|---|---|
| 23 Jan 2025 | Item 14: approving collateral assignment of the Lancium, LLC and Abilene DC 1, LLC tax abatement agreements to JP Morgan Chase Bank. |
| 13 Feb 2025 | Amendments to the Amended and Restated tax abatement agreements with Lancium. |
| 13 Mar 2025 | Contract with BVNA for inspection services located at the Lancium Project. |
| 11 Jun 2025 | Closed session under § 551.087: “Project Diamond (Crusoe & Lancium)”. |
| 1 Jul 2025 | Planning & Zoning: amending the buffer area of Planned Development District PDD-181 at 617 F.M. 2404, legally described as the Lancium Addition, Taylor County. |
| 28 Aug 2025 | Item 28: tax abatement agreements and amended agreements with Lancium, LLC and Abilene DC 1, DC 3, DC 4, DC 5, DC 6, DC 7 and DC 8. |
| 3 Oct 2025 | Closed session: “Lancium, Project Diamond”. |
| 6 Nov 2025 | Closed session: Project Surf, Project Rise, Lancium Project. Item 25: a Chapter 380 agreement for Project Surf. |
| 20 Nov 2025 | Closed session: Project Rainy Creek, Project Surf, Lancium Project. |
| 4 Dec 2025 | Item 17: Phase 9, Phase 10 and the Electricity Generation Plant abatements. Reinvestment Zone RZ25-1, ~614.91 acres. |
| 8 Jan 2026 | Closed session, then item 16 in open session: Site Infrastructure Agreements with Abilene DC9, LLC and Abilene DC10, LLC. |
What we notice, and what we do not claim
Two things stand out on the face of the record, and neither is an accusation.
There is a generation plant in the deal. A campus large enough to need its own electricity generation entity is a different proposition for a city than a warehouse, and it raises ordinary questions about power, water and who carries the cost of the connection. The agreements answer those questions. They are public records.
The numbering skips two. The companies run DC 1 and DC 3 through DC 10, plus DC TPP. In the agendas indexed so far, DC 2 does not appear. That may mean nothing — entities get renamed, merged, or never formed — and we are not going to guess. It is noted because it is the kind of gap one request resolves in a line.
We are not alleging that anything here was improper. Tax abatements, Chapter 380 agreements, reinvestment zones and § 551.087 closed sessions are ordinary, lawful instruments used by cities across Texas, and attracting investment is a legitimate thing for a council to do. The point is narrower: the negotiations happened in closed session and the resulting agreements are public. A resident is entitled to read what the City actually agreed to.
The same tool, at two very different sizes
Chapter 380 is worth understanding because Abilene uses it at both ends of the scale. The statute that appears beside these projects also appears in agreements with individual homebuilders under the City’s ReBuild ABI programme — single addresses on Peach Street and Minda Street. One instrument, a homebuilder at one end and a multi-company campus with its own power plant at the other. Reading both tells you more than reading either.
What we are asking for
- The executed tax abatement agreements and second agreements named in the 28 August and 4 December 2025 items, in full, with all exhibits.
- The Site Infrastructure Agreements with Abilene DC9 and DC10 approved 8 January 2026.
- The ordinance and boundary description for Reinvestment Zone RZ25-1.
- Any water supply or utility service agreement referenced by those agreements, and the projected water demand relied on by the City.
- The certified agenda or tape of the § 551.087 sessions, which Texas requires a governmental body to keep.
Requests are filed in the Move Weight Foundation’s name, so no resident has to attach their own to them. What comes back is published whole and unredacted here, alongside the City’s own copy.
You do not have to identify yourself. Send documents or a pointer to abilene@moveweight.net — a submitter’s identity is never published, in a page, a filename, or a file’s metadata.
Sourced entirely from agendas published by the City of Abilene through its CivicClerk portal and re-indexed here every week. If any line on this page misreads a document, tell us and we will correct it and say that we did.