Westlake data center approval frustrates Keller residents

After a deal was struck to move forward with plans for data centers next to a Keller neighborhood, people who live out there say the deal is a bad one. Fox Sports, John England reports. A community with concerns despite a Keller Westlake settlement agreement and now an approved data center for the town of Westlake. Nobody in Marshall Ridge is satisfied by what happened with that settlement. Josh Rabe owns a home in the Keller subdivision of Marshall Ridge. He says the hammered out agreement does not speak for all but represents concessions between a small group of Marshall Ridge homeowners governed by a separate HOA. Westlake and the developer of the planned 1.1 million square foot campus. In the end, they're basically saying, okay, we'll build a little bit higher of a berm and... You know, we'll monitor the noise, which if they actually monitor and if they actually do anything or if anything changes, nobody has any faith in the developer or in Westlake to enforce anything. How should we compromise children's lives? Let's build a data center next to some poor school. No, not next to ours. That would be cruel. We'll put it in the corner of the city where we don't live. Let Keller deal with the consequences and not give a lick. Rabe sang his opposition before Thursday's final vote. Other speakers also expressed their feelings. You call this responsible growth and responsible local decision making. I prefer to call it what it is, a big stinking pile of BS. The months-long impasse between Keller and Westlake centered around the planned center's proximity to Keller homes and environmental concerns including noise and utilities consumption. Westlake officials on Thursday said the data center will monitor sound from the data center for three years as opposed to initially one year and staging for the project's construction will be on the north side versus initially the southern side next to homes. Josh Rabe says the fight is not over. Everybody in the country our new governor is looking to slow down on data data centers and Westlake only wants to speed things up. So you're saying this isn't over? No, not for me. Okay. What little I can do, I will do. Dionne Anglin, Fox 4 News.