White Rose Withdraws $500M Prosper, Texas Data Center Bid

White Rose Partners withdrew its rezoning application for a roughly $500 million, 225,000-square-foot data center in Prosper, Texas, hours before the Town Council was set to vote on it September 8, one week after the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission recommended denial by a 7-0 vote. The withdrawal closes out a contested entitlement fight over 37.3 acres at FM 1385 and Parvin Road, code-named Project Tomahawk.

Why it matters

For developers chasing AI-power sites nationally, Prosper is a hard data point on how fast entitlement risk is repricing in fast-growing suburbs. This is not a slow-growth town reflexively saying no to industry. It is a booming Dallas-Fort Worth suburb that still produced a unanimous denial recommendation after more than an hour of public opposition, including Mayor David Bristol speaking against the project. White Rose managing partner Jeff Eigenbrood said in withdrawing, “We don’t want to go into communities where we’re not wanted.” Reporting also ties the pullback to new state-level scrutiny of data centers, on top of the local pushback. A 7-0 board vote against a project that already had a signed development agreement in the town’s own files is the clearest signal yet that local zoning boards, not utility interconnection queues, are becoming the binding constraint on where hyperscale capacity can land.

The numbers

The site covers 37.273 acres in the Parvin 1385 Addition, Block A, Lot 2, per the town’s own zoning case file, ZONE-26-0007, which sought to rezone the land from Agricultural to a Planned Development for a data center, plus a Future Land Use Plan amendment. The town’s Sept. 1 packet names the developer entity as D9-1 Assets LLC, White Rose’s project vehicle. The Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7-0 on Sept. 1 to recommend denial. The proposed building was reported at 225,000 square feet, covering under 20% of the site, with a project cost reported at roughly $500 million.

What’s next

The application is closed. White Rose withdrew both the rezoning and land-use plan items the Town Council had listed for its Sept. 8 regular meeting, and no new hearing has been scheduled. For developers still chasing data center sites nationally, the pattern to watch is whether a fast-growing suburb’s unanimous board rejection, followed by a same-day withdrawal, becomes the template other towns use to stop large-load projects before a final vote rather than after one. Follow ongoing coverage in data centers and national markets.