Data Center Registry
Comanche Circle
Tolar, Hood County, Texas
Comanche Circle is a proposed data center in Tolar, Texas (Hood County), operated by Sailfish Digital Ventures (SDV). The public record puts it at 2 GW planned, 2,600 acres. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.
Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.
Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Sailfish Digital Ventures (SDV)
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- Tolar, Hood County, TX
- Coordinates
- 32.3500, -97.8300
- Power capacity
- 2 GW planned
- Land
- 2,600 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Contested
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Comanche Circle in Tolar, Hood County, Texas is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Local opposition (Protect the Paluxy Valley group, aquifer/water concerns); a Feb 2026 county moratorium vote failed 3-2.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.
Local opposition (Protect the Paluxy Valley group, aquifer/water concerns); a Feb 2026 county moratorium vote failed 3-2.
Power and water
Sailfish Investors' Comanche Circle (2,100-2,600 acre, up to 5GW planned across nine campuses) originally planned a mixed gas + grid supply, anchored by a proposed 2GW on-site gas plant ('Tolar Power Center') developed by NRG that would have supplied the campus.
Notes on the record
Near Vistra's Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant. Developer states a 5GW total pipeline across 9 campuses; a later, scaled-back figure puts Comanche Circle plus two smaller Sailfish projects combined at 'up to 3 gigawatts' - given conflicting figures, no single capacityMw is recorded here. Conditional county approval Jan 2026; construction targeted late 2026. No hyperscaler tenant confirmed - speculative developer-led land assembly. Coordinates are approximate.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Fort Spunky · Pacifico Energy6 mi · Proposed · 100 MW · In litigation
- MARA Granbury Facility · Granbury · MARA Holdings7 mi · Operating · 300 MW · In litigation
- Big Digital Energy-10NetZero Hood County AI Data Center Campus · Big Digital Energy, Inc. / 10NetZero, Inc. (50/50 joint venture)7 mi · Proposed · 311 MW
- AWS Project Spectrum (Somervell/Hood County) · Amazon Data Services, Inc.9 mi · Proposed
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Comanche Circle data center in Tolar?
Yes. Comanche Circle in Tolar, Hood County, Texas is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Local opposition (Protect the Paluxy Valley group, aquifer/water concerns); a Feb 2026 county moratorium vote failed 3-2.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Comanche Circle data center?
No lawsuit over Comanche Circle appears in the record we track as of August 16, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Comanche Circle use?
No water withdrawal figure for Comanche Circle is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Comanche Circle, and how big is it?
Sailfish Digital Ventures (SDV) is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 2 GW. The site is recorded at 2600 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Comanche Circle," updated August 16, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/comanche-circle-sailfish-hood-county-tx.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/comanche-circle-sailfish-hood-county-tx, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Sailfish plans multi-gigawatt data center park outside DFW, Texas · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 9, 2026
- 2.Hood County rejects data center development pause · Texas Tribune · retrieved July 9, 2026
- 3.KERA News: NRG withdraws permit for proposed Tolar gas plant amid community opposition (confirms June 18 2026 withdrawal, campus power plan now undefined) · retrieved July 24, 2026
- 4.KERA News: NRG withdraws permit for proposed Tolar gas plant amid community opposition (confirms June 18 2026 withdrawal, campus power plan now undefined) · retrieved August 16, 2026
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