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Data center campus · Knox Ranch, southwest of downtown Granbury, near Meadow Wood Road and U.S. 377, Hood County, Texas

Project Patriot (Knox Ranch)

Approved as of April 7, 2026

A proposed power generation and AI data center campus on roughly 2,000 acres that Granbury annexed and rezoned, which has drawn an open meetings lawsuit and recall petitions. Also known as: Knox Ranch.

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PowerNot statedNot reported in the records found
Site2,084acres

Who is behind it

ProjectProject Patriot (Knox Ranch)Also: Knox Ranch
Developer and teamBilateral Energy
End userNot found in the recordsNot yet named in any record or credited report we have found.

The record, newest first

  1. The city, which had reversed course and verified the petitions, said a recall election could not be held before May 2027; none of the targeted officials resigned. (KERA News, Sept. 29, 2026)

  2. After the city rejected the petitions in late July, organizers asked the Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth to order the city to accept them. (KERA News, Aug. 17, 2026)

  3. Organizers filed petitions at City Hall seeking recall of the mayor and four council members, citing transparency concerns over the project. (KERA News, July 16, 2026)

  4. Granbury adopted an ordinance rezoning a 2,084-acre tract from interim holding to industrial. (City of Granbury, April 7, 2026)

  5. A group of residents sued the city and several officials in Hood County, alleging Texas Open Meetings Act violations involving the annexation notice and documents and a January tour of a Bilateral Energy data center; the claims are unproven. (KERA News, April 10, 2026)

  6. Granbury City Council took up annexation of the roughly 2,000-acre ranch at its Jan. 6 meeting and approved it unanimously in January. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram (via AOL), undated; KERA News, April 10, 2026)

  7. Hood County commissioners voted 3-1 on a nonbinding letter of support for an unnamed capital investment called Project Patriot, presented as bringing 60 permanent jobs; it was not described as a data center at the time. (The Texas Tribune, June 2, 2026)

Conflicts and open questions

  • Ordinance 26-16 does not name Knox Ranch or a data center; its acreage, Knox Road and Meadow Wood Road boundaries and adoption date match news accounts of the Knox Ranch rezoning.
  • The Star-Telegram reported a Bilateral Energy TCEQ permit (applied for in June and approved in July, apparently 2025) for eight simple-cycle turbines and 87 linear generators at 1225 Meadow Wood Road; on-site generation is not data center load. That article showed no date.
  • KERA's July 2026 report names Dallas-based Bilateral Energy as the company behind Project Patriot; the April report named it only as operator of the toured data center.
  • No MW figure for the data center was found.
  • Dates of the lawsuit (Monday before the April 10 article), recall filing (Monday before the July 16 article) and council meeting (Monday before the Sept. 29 article) are inferred; the July 2025 county vote and the annexation are month-only.
  • The Aug. 17 event uses the article date; the filing date was not given.
  • Acreage is reported as about 2,000 to 2,100 acres; the ordinance gives 2,084.

The full record

Status note
Granbury rezoned the land to industrial; no data center construction reported.
Evidence
Primary public records
Size class
50 MW or more (tracker scope)
Map position approximate, from the reported address or area. Updated Oct. 17, 2026.