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Public records requests

Here is what we have asked the City of Temple for, and what came back.

Request 26-2558: UL 9540A test reports

Request: City of Temple public records request 26-2558
Filed: June 17, 2026
Asked for: The UL 9540A test reports for the Meta, Rowan, and newly approved Oppidan facilities. The fire marshal had told the requester that the City’s public records office keeps these reports.
Closed: June 30, 2026, by staff
The City’s response: “After a diligent search from staff, we have concluded there to be no documents responsive to your request.”
Documents released: None
See the request: Request 26-2558 on the City’s NextRequest site

Other records we have asked for

Needs reviewAdd request numbers, dates, and outcomes for these requests if available.

Documents

Letters, petition forms, and research we have gathered. They are hosted on this site so the links keep working.

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Details of the proposed charter amendmentsThe two proposed changes to the Temple City Charter. PDF, 80 KB
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Charter petition form 1Print, sign, and collect signatures. PDF, 67 KB
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Charter petition form 2Print, sign, and collect signatures. PDF, 67 KB
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Open letter to the City of TempleSent by email to the entire City Council and Mayor Tim Davis, February 2026. PDF, 91 KB
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Chemicals for baseline testingThe list of chemicals to test for. This is not an agricultural test. PDF, 36 KB
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Brazos River Authority interviewOur interview questions and the answers. Word, 21 KB
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Evidence folder on Google DriveDocuments including our plea to Bell County Judge Blackburn, General Manager Whitney Ingram, and the Clearwater UWCD Board of Directors.

Research papers

Two studies on data center energy use. We describe what each one actually says, including what it does not cover, so you can check our work.

Peer-reviewed study, 2026, open access

From servers to services: modeling data centers as heat-active urban energy prosumers

Authors: Sai Sudharshan Ravi, Theresa Sophie Löffler, Eduardo Antonio Pina, Shivom Sharma, Dorsan Lepour, Cedric Terrier, François Maréchal, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Published in: Applied Energy, volume 402 (2026), article 127049

What it studies. How data centers could stop being only large electricity users and instead feed useful heat and flexible demand back into a city’s energy system. The researchers modeled five scenarios for the EPFL university campus in Lausanne, Switzerland, and compared two ways of recovering waste heat.

What it found. In that case study, data center waste heat could supply up to 40 percent of the campus heat demand, and up to 60 percent of the heat the data centers reject could be put to use. Shifting computing work to match solar output raised the share of solar power used on site by up to 28 percent in some cases.

Background it cites. Data centers use about 2 to 3 percent of global electricity, a share that has been projected to rise to between 10 and 51 percent by 2030.

What it does not cover. This study is about reusing waste heat in a Swiss campus district. It does not measure how much data centers warm the land or air around them, so it is not a source for heat island temperature figures.

Read the full study (PDF, 11 MB) View at the publisher

Science Policy Forum, 2020

Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates

Authors: Eric Masanet, Arman Shehabi, Nuoa Lei, Sarah Smith, Jonathan Koomey

Published in: Science, volume 367, issue 6481 (February 28, 2020), pages 984 to 986

What it studies. How much electricity the world’s data centers actually used from 2010 to 2018, built up from data on servers, storage, network equipment, and cooling rather than projected from growth in internet traffic.

What it found. Global data center electricity use rose from about 194 terawatt-hours in 2010 to about 205 terawatt-hours in 2018, around 1 percent of the world’s electricity. That is a 6 percent increase, while the computing work done in data centers grew by 550 percent. Most of the difference came from more efficient servers and storage and a shift to large cloud and hyperscale facilities.

Read it in context. This analysis uses data through 2018, before the recent wave of AI data center construction. The authors warned that energy demand could grow sharply once today’s efficiency gains are used up, and they called for public reporting of data center energy use for transparency and accountability.

Read it at Science PubMed record

Copyright 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science. The publisher does not allow the article itself to be reposted, so we link to it. The authors’ data and model are openly available on Zenodo.

Sources we cite

The outside sources behind our issue pages, grouped by topic. Read them for yourself.

Water

Basin Summary ReportBrazos River Authority, 2022
Region G 2026 Regional Water Plan, Volume ITexas Water Development Board
Socioeconomic Impact Analysis, Region G, 2026Texas Water Development Board
Data centerWikipedia, background on data center cooling

Corrections

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Public records requests

Request 26-2558: UL 9540A test reports

Other records we have asked for

Documents

Research papers

From servers to services: modeling data centers as heat-active urban energy prosumers

Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates

Sources we cite

Water

Electricity

Heat

Environment

Money and politics

Voting and government

Corrections

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