TAYLOR, Texas — On Monday morning, Taylor residents packed a Williamson County courthouse, all wearing their “No Data Centers in our neighborhood” stickers. For the past few months, they’ve been fighting to stop a data center from being built near their homes.

"As a community, we're trying to fight and save our property," said Pamela Griffin, a Taylor resident. "Once they put the data center in, there's no going back."

Blueprint Data Centers plans to build a 135,000 square foot, 60-megawatt data center on a lot behind 2nd Street in Taylor, where Pamela Griffin’s family home is.

For years, her and her siblings grew up playing on that empty lot and were told it was going to be turned into a park. Griffin claims that a deed from 1999 designates that land for future park use.

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