Black Mountain Power owns about 460 acres along FM 56 northwest of Glen Rose, bordering the north side of Dinosaur Valley State Park, where its affiliate Fort Worth Power Core holds a state air permit, issued in February 2025, for a combined-cycle gas plant. The plant is in ERCOT's interconnection queue. Black Mountain has described a data center campus of about 450 acres alongside it, but has not filed a concept or site plan. Somervell County commissioners passed a resolution opposing new data centers in May 2026.
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| 1.79 miles | Sailfish: Project Lion |
Sailfish Investors' proposed two-building data center on 121 acres off Hill City Highway south of Tolar, Hood County, Texas, filed by affiliate Panther Generation LLC between the Comanche Circle tracts. Hood County denied its on-site permit in 2026.
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| 1.99 miles | Core CenterInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
| 2.45 miles | Sailfish: Project Panther |
Sailfish Investors' proposed four-building data center on 300 acres off Paluxy Highway (FM 51) south of Tolar, Hood County, Texas, filed by affiliate Panther Generation LLC between the Comanche Circle tracts. Hood County denied its on-site permit in 2026.
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| 2.82 miles | Sailfish: Comanche Circle Expansion |
Later phases of Sailfish Investors' proposed Comanche Circle park: 27 planned buildings on a 969-acre central ranch tract and a 411-acre tract on Hill City Highway (FM 56), south of Tolar in Hood County.
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| 3.58 miles | Sailfish: Comanche Circle 1 |
First phase of Sailfish Investors' proposed Comanche Circle park: 18 planned buildings on a 721-acre ranch tract along Paluxy Highway (FM 51) south of Tolar, Hood County, beside the site NRG had proposed for an on-site gas plant.
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| 5.50 miles | Starwood: Project Yellow (Granbury) |
Project Yellow is a proposed hyperscale data center development on about 538 acres next to the Wolf Hollow power plant near Granbury, Hood County; the county did not approve it and the developers have appealed.
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| 6.36 miles | Marathon Digital: Granbury, TX |
MARA runs a bitcoin mining site beside Constellation's Wolf Hollow gas plant near Granbury, Hood County, Texas, which it bought in 2024.
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| 8.57 miles | Big Digital Energy: Hood County |
Big Digital Energy and 10NetZero are converting the former Cowtown gas processing plant in Hood County, Texas, into an AI and HPC data center campus.
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| 9.08 miles | Bilateral Energy: Project Patriot |
Project Patriot is Bilateral Energy's proposed data center and power campus on the Knox Ranch west of Granbury, Hood County, Texas, now tied up by a residents' lawsuit.
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| 10.11 miles | Pacifico Energy: Fort Spunky |
Pacifico Energy proposed a data center and power campus near Fort Spunky in eastern Hood County, Texas; the county revoked its concept plan in March 2026 and Pacifico has sued.
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