Farmer Gifts Land For A Park, City Has Different Plans

Data centers are a modern-day plague, and what they are used to create still has an extremely uncertain future. We have yet to see if the juice is worth the squeeze;

Milt Harris , Bio and Archives--June 14, 2026

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In the ultimate case of betrayal, in 1999, the Bland family gifted approximately 88 acres to the parks department in Taylor, Texas, for $10, which did nothing with it. They gave it to a park foundation nonprofit, which did nothing with it. They gave it to the city, and the city did nothing with it. The city then sold it to economic developers who have spent 18 years doing nothing with it.

Then last year, the City of Taylor, Texas, sold it to a data center developer for $10 million.

As 404 media reported:

According to the Texas Tribune, Texas is already home to more than 300 operating data centers, with........

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