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A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead (www.404media.co)
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[-] Syrc@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not a lawyer either, but the article explicitly says “sold”, so I assume it’s not just leasing

In 2003, the Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation granted the land to another non-profit called the Williamson County Park Foundation. A month later, that non-profit gave the land to the City of Taylor. Five years later, in 2008, the city of Taylor sold the land to the Taylor Economic Development Corporation (TEDC) for $15,000. In 2025, TEDC sold the land to Blueprint, the data center developers, for $10 million.

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