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There’s a new application sitting in the County Judge’s office, and it’s a big one. Crusoe Technologies, LLC — a Denver company — wants Leon County to carve a piece of Precinct 3 into a reinvestment zone and grant it a property tax abatement to build an AI data center campus. Multiple buildings, electrical substations, banks of backup generators. The works. They’ve put a number on it: $34 billion at full build-out. That number does a lot of heavy lifting in this application, so I read the whole thing — alongside the county’s own abatement rules — to see what we’d actually get in return. The short version: not much, and they’re asking for more than our rules allow. ...

Somewhere on a highway in Leon County right now, a camera is photographing every vehicle that passes, reading the plate, and writing down where it was and when. There are fourteen of them going up across our county — in Centerville, Buffalo, Jewett, Oakwood, Normangee, Marquez, and Leona. You didn’t vote for them. Most people don’t know they exist. And you’re paying for them. If you’re not sure what an automated license plate reader even is, start here: What Is Flock Safety and an ALPR? The short version is that these aren’t ordinary security cameras — they record everyone’s movements, not just suspects’, and they feed a nationwide network that other agencies can search. ...

Two Texas counties held their Commissioners Court meetings the same week this June. One of them trusted its residents with the details. The other handed out a list of riddles. Compare the Leon County agenda for June 8, 2026 with the Ector County agenda for June 9, 2026. Read them side by side and the difference is impossible to miss — and impossible to excuse. What Leon County tells you Here are real items, copied word-for-word from Leon County’s posted agenda: ...

Item 11 on the draft agenda for the June 8, 2026 Leon County Commissioners Court meeting proposes adopting new rules of decorum for court meetings and a new public comment form. This item is currently a draft and is subject to change before the meeting. The two documents are being shared here so residents can read them in full and weigh in before any vote. What these documents are Two PDFs are attached to the proposal: ...

Daniel and Michael roll the tape on Wednesday’s Leon County Commissioners Court, going clip by clip through claims made by the County Judge, the Commissioners, and the County Attorney — separating what’s accurate from the misinformation and outright false statements presented to the public as fact.

In this week’s Know Leon County Weekly Wrap-Up, we recap the latest Commissioners Court meeting developments and discuss what residents should be paying attention to moving forward. Watch Topics Covered Commissioners Court rescheduled from Monday to Thursday Resolution dealing with the proposed data center in Marquez Resolution related to the 391 Regional Planning Committee Discussion on requiring industrial projects to follow the National Fire Code (including examples from other counties) Commissioner TJ reading a letter he drafted and is sending to the Governor and other elected representatives Judge Ryder sharing an email he sent to state officials and plans to travel to Washington, DC to discuss data center concerns Low turnout at the meeting and why community participation matters Upcoming interviews with subject matter experts and candidates Links YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JaWlpG1cNQ Website: https://www.knowleoncounty.org Contact: knowleoncounty@gmail.com

Commissioners Court Agenda – JANUARY 26, 2026 This meeting has been rescheduled for JAN 29, 2026 due to weather. Source PDF: Jan 26 2026 CC Agenda filed.pdf Items of interest Data Center item found at agenda item 7 Discuss and possibly take action on Resolution dealing with Data Center in Marquez. 391 Planning Committee mentioned at agenda item 8 Discuss and possibly take action on Resolution for the 391 Regional Planning Committee. ...

Episode 3 of the Know Leon County podcast features a weekly wrap-up of the Commissioners Court meeting and the Jewett town hall, with Ann and Daniel joining the discussion.

This is the Know Leon County Weekly Wrap-Up, a regular update to share what happened this week and what’s coming next regarding the proposed data center and battery storage projects in Leon County. Community Organizing Updates This week, the team that runs the Citizens Against Marquez Data and Storage Center Facebook group met to prepare for two upcoming public events: The Commissioners Court meeting on Monday, January 12 The Town Hall meeting in Jewett on Tuesday, January 13 During that meeting, we discussed who would be speaking and which topics would be covered. We also reviewed the informational handbooks that will be handed out at the town hall. ...

Commissioners Court Agenda – JANUARY 12, 2026 Source PDF: January 12 2026 Commissioners Court Agenda Filed.pdf Items of interest Data Center item found at agenda item 6 Discuss and possibly take action on data centers in Leon County. This is a generic place holder allowing for the discussion of new info regarding data centers in Leon County. It does not allow for the creation of a reinvestment zone, or the granting of a tax abatement. ...