For eight months, paid city staff have been secretly negotiating to bring a large-scale industrial data center/bitcoin mining facility to your backyard. They called it a "data center." They forced even our elected council members into NDAs. They gave us just 4 days notice before the final vote.
The contract proves it: This is a large-scale industrial data center, designed for bitcoin mining. They called it a 'data center', but it's much more: a massive industrial facility.
Orchestrated the secret industrial data center deal
Pushed this industrial data center project through in darkness
Allowed the secrecy regarding the industrial data center to continue
Even our elected council members were kept in the dark. When Councilman Bob Yancy demanded to see the NDA, city staff refused to provide details about this industrial data center.
Current market price in our area
5% property value drop per home from the data center impact
10% property value drop per home from the bitcoin mining/data center
Total destroyed wealth potential due to this industrial data center
Your family's largest investment is about to be sabotaged for city staff's budget goals by this bitcoin mining/data center operation.
Families can't sleep. Children can't study. Property values crashed.
Constant industrial humming. Residents moving away. Community destroyed.
Louder than highway traffic
Visible from every neighborhood
Potentially causing brownouts and higher utility bills
These industrial data facilities run mostly unmanned
Massive energy waste for large-scale data operations
City staff impose automatic NDAs for the bitcoin mining/industrial data center project - no transparency allowed
Secret negotiations for the large-scale industrial data facility with ZERO community input, council members silenced
Contract for the bitcoin mining/data center project quietly posted online (they hoped you wouldn't notice)
Final vote on the industrial data center development - YOUR LAST CHANCE
When: Thursday, September 11, 6:00 PM
Where: City Hall, 1101 Texas Ave
Register to Speak: Call 979-764-3500 BEFORE 12:00 PM Thursday
Can't Attend? Submit written comments by the same deadline
"City staff have deceived us all - including you - about this bitcoin mining/industrial data center operation. They called it a 'data center' and hid behind NDAs they wouldn't even show Councilman Yancy. While paid staff chase $10M/year for their budgets, families like mine will lose tens of thousands in home equity. Stand with your constituents, not city staff. Vote NO on this backdoor deal, or we'll remember who stood with the people at election time."
- Share on every neighborhood Facebook group
- Post on Nextdoor immediately
- Text every neighbor you know
- Forward to your HOA board
- Call friends in Castle Gate, Woodland Hills, Spring Meadows
Mark Smith, Place 1
📞 979-764-3541
✉️ msmith@cstx.gov
William Wright, Place 2
📞 979-764-3541
✉️ wwright@cstx.gov
David White, Place 3
📞 979-764-3541
✉️ dwhite@cstx.gov
Melissa McIlhaney, Place 4
📞 979-764-3541
✉️ mcilhaney@cstx.gov
Bob Yancy, Place 5 (Already fighting for transparency)
📞 979-764-3541
✉️ byancy@cstx.gov
Scott Shafer, Place 6
📞 979-764-3541
✉️ sshafer@cstx.gov
City staff are counting on low turnout. Prove them wrong.
Posted on X: Oct 16, 2021
"cryptocurrency mining operations"
"bitcoin mining/data center equipment"
"digital asset computing"
The truth is in writing. City staff just hoped you wouldn't read it.
- City staff learn they can hide anything for 8 months, especially industrial bitcoin mining/data center deals
- More secret deals destroying our quality of life with industrial facilities
- Your home becomes worthless as industrial data centers surround us
- College Station becomes a cautionary tale of unchecked industrial expansion
- City staff learn that transparency isn't optional for any industrial development, including bitcoin mining/data centers
- Council members remember they work for US
- Future industrial deals require community input
- We save our neighborhood and our home values from unwanted industrial facilities
who kept even YOU in the dark about this bitcoin mining/industrial data center facility
who elected you to protect our community
- City staff wouldn't even show you the NDAs
- They called it a "data center" to deceive everyone
- They gave us 4 days notice on an 8-month secret deal
- Elections are coming, and we vote
Do the right thing. Vote NO.
Remember the Post Oak Mall fiasco? City staff killed Jim Lewis's private entertainment center to pursue their own failed government scheme, wasting millions in taxpayer money.
Now they're at it again - making secret deals for large-scale industrial data facilities, which benefit their budgets while destroying our community.
City Manager during both betrayals
Pattern of secrecy and failure regarding industrial data centers
SEPTEMBER 11
6:00 PM
Show up in numbers they can't ignore
Make your voice heard for transparency
Protect our homes and our future
Do they serve the city staff or the people regarding the industrial data center/bitcoin mining facilities?
WHO THEY WORK FOR.
Paid for by residents who demand transparency and accountability from city staff regarding the proposed bitcoin mining/industrial data center. We support our elected council members who stand with the people.
Your community. Your voice. Your choice.