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The Question · Abilene, TX

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.

This is a question, not an accusation

No one at this Foundation has alleged that anybody in Abilene has done anything wrong, and nothing on this site should be read that way. Chapters are opened on structural risk — large capital programmes, fast growth, a single dominant employer, a utility or authority that meets away from the council — because those are the conditions under which decisions get made with nobody watching. That is a statement about attention, not about anybody's conduct.

Naming a city next to an accusation we have not documented would be precisely the thing this project exists to oppose. So the page you are reading names the question and the record that settles it, and then we go and ask for the record.

The record that answers it

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.

How this gets resolved

  1. Ask. A request goes to the City of Abilene under Tex. Gov't Code ch. 552. The City has ten (10) business days.
  2. Publish what comes back, whole. Released public records go up unredacted. We do not summarise a document in place of showing it, and we do not redact what the government already released.
  3. Publish what does not come back. A missed deadline, a refusal with no statute cited, an estimate that prices a resident out — those get published too, with dates. Silence is a finding.
  4. Rewrite this page. When the documents are in, this page stops being a question and becomes what the records showed — including if they showed nothing. A chapter that only ever reports wrongdoing is not doing arithmetic, it is doing marketing.

What you can do right now

You do not need us. The statute is yours, and a request from a resident of Abilene is harder to wave away than one from a nonprofit two states over.

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