As Texas tightens the reins on data center projects, a Dallas-based developer is seeking permission to build in Prosper. 

White Rose Partners wants to build a data center project on a 37-acre property near the intersection of FM 1385 and Parvin Road in northwest Prosper. The data center developer said Project Tomahawk, as it is known, will include one building that would occupy less than 20% of the property, according to a website set up by White Rose Partners. 

Prosper officials initially added Project Tomahawk to the agenda for the Aug. 18 meeting of the planning and zoning commission but then removed the item to gather more information and review the proposed data center, The Dallas Morning News reported. 

Although it did not appear on the commission’s agenda Tuesday, Project Tomahawk still drew pushback during the meeting. Prosper resident Aileen Blachowski, who also serves as the Republican Party chair for Denton County's Precinct 1016, told the commission not to change the property's zoning. 

“Since we were informed about the project, a bipartisan network of eight precincts, both Democrat and Republican, have locked arms to oppose this project," Blachowski said during the meeting. "We already invested our life savings and planted our families in these communities, and that data center is going to land in our backyard.”

Blachowski said the property is too small for a data center and the impacts on neighboring residents will be too great. 

A new hearing date for the project has not yet been scheduled. 

White Rose Partners did not immediately respond to Bisnow’s request for comment. 

On the project’s website, the firm states that it is planning a total investment of "hundreds of millions of dollars" that will boost the tax base for Prosper, Denton County and the local school district. 

The developer plans to pay for the infrastructure and electricity for the data center, though the project wouldn’t need a new substation or transmission lines since the site is next to the Brazos Electric Parvin Substation. 

White Rose Partners plans to institute a 65-decibel noise limit, which would be less than the noise in an average office space, according to the Hearing Health Foundation.

If the city approves it, the data center would connect to Prosper’s water system. The developer said the project was designed to use water efficiently. The project website states that the data center would use around 300 gallons of water a day, which is less than an average household of four per day, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott halted all data center connections to the state grid earlier this month so an audit of power demands, water use, ownership and other information can be completed. 

Instead of issuing a moratorium on data center projects, the audit is expected to help clear out a glut of speculative projects requesting more than five times the amount of power the state grid has ever produced.