Hood County

Jeff Law is the former chief appraiser from Tarrant County.

He was currently at that time employed by Hood County, and he got a reprieve, you know, a day a week of vacation to come and work for us.

But they did it in a very slick manner.

They...

Yeah, let's begin with last month when France 24's team went to Granbury, Texas, southwest of Dallas.

This is Republican Hood County.

Here's an excerpt from the report read by Wasim Kolnar.

35 years ago, Cheryl moved to the Texas countryside in search of peace and quiet.

going to be a while.

Well, in Hood County, that controversial Comanche Circle data center development is now on hold.

That's something we covered this week as well.

What's happened there?

Okay, coming up next on The James Show, you're gonna check out a masterclass in propaganda, and this is in the local news scene where we're gonna talk about, uh, they wanna rename a bridge in honor of a cowboy.

The Hood County's fighting against data centers.

Tarrant County's got their polling places in a controversy and questionable reporting around all three of them.

You'll hear it next on The James Show, News Talk 820, 93.3 FM, WBAP.

I mean, he is not-- He's different than what, what I think is right.

Oh, well then we're not gonna name a bridge after you, Randy White, even though you were probably a better player.

The next one in my masterclass of local news propaganda today, we go over to Hood County, where Hood County has some data centers proposed.

They have some public comments on it, and I'm a, I'm a big data center proponent Some people are not.

Coming up next on the James Show, uh, more data center back and forth here.

Hood County and a few other places around here are doing the data center thing.

I'll get you caught up on that next on the James Show.

NewsTalk 820, 93.3 FM, WBAP.

The specter of data centers, the, the battle is not going away anytime soon.

These things are being had every day.

Uh, the latest one happening right now is in Hood County where they have a, a few proposed, but, I think one just got shut down.

This morning, data center proposals up for discussion again in some communities across North Texas.

It is a boring, orderly way to settle it.

In Hood County, the developer of a data centre campus near Dinosaur Valley State Park has offered the county a choice.

Option 1, he shrinks the project to 1,375 acres and accepts voluntary limits on setbacks, cooling, light pollution and road damage.

Option two, he sues and builds a footprint 83% larger with no restrictions at all.

Bids are due November 12th.

Hood County, Texas is seeking bids from construction firms for expansion of the existing county jail facility.

The project involves adding up to 200 additional beds and an approximately 25,000 square foot secure housing addition, along with expanded laundry and visitation areas, exercise and multipurpose spaces, and upgrades to kitchen and support facilities.

DRG Architects is the project designer.

There are some incredibly bad actors.

who moved very quickly, and this is particularly true up in Hood County, where folks went in, bought up a bunch of farmland, built the shoddiest-looking data center, the bright lights 24-7 with a loud roar of the—you can hear the hum of the servers— from 200 meters away, 200 yards away, this is, you know, that's the poster child for evilness, right? And, you know, we've got the folks who are doing crypto mining in Cameron County, and they've, not Cameron County, but outside of Austin, where they have, expect ERCOT to pay them to shut down every August to save electricity.

It's part of their business plan is to create such a huge demand on the grid that ERCOT is forced to pay them to shut down when electricity prices when electricity gets short.

Right.