{"id":7292,"date":"2026-06-14T09:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/betrayed-farmer-donated-87-acres-for-a-park-the-city-secretly-sold-it-to-a-data-center-for-10m\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:16:14","slug":"betrayed-farmer-donated-87-acres-for-a-park-the-city-secretly-sold-it-to-a-data-center-for-10m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/betrayed-farmer-donated-87-acres-for-a-park-the-city-secretly-sold-it-to-a-data-center-for-10m\/","title":{"rendered":"BETRAYED: Farmer Donated 87 Acres for a Park \u2014 The City Secretly Sold It to a Data Center for $10M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_8Xd4EpJMvM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>In 1999, a Texas farmer named Mr. Bland donated 87 acres of land to the City of Taylor, Texas for just $10 \u2014 with one condition: it had to be used as a public park so children in the community would have somewhere to play. Over 25 years later, the city sold that same land to a data center developer called Blueprint for $10 MILLION. Now a 135,000 square foot data center is going up where kids were supposed to run free.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf3e Who was the farmer and why did he give the land away?<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfdb\ufe0f How did the city quietly transfer the land multiple times?<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcb0 How did a $10 donation turn into a $10 million sale?<br \/>\n\u270a Who is fighting back \u2014 and are they winning?<br \/>\n\ud83c\udfd7\ufe0f What does this mean for communities everywhere?<\/p>\n<p>Longtime resident Pamela Griffin is taking the fight all the way to the Texas Court of Appeals. This isn&#8217;t just a Texas story \u2014 it&#8217;s happening in communities everywhere. Watch, share, and make sure your community knows.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for daily news and stories that matter to real people.<\/p>\n<p>#DataCenter #LandRights #CommunityBetrayal #TaylorTexas #UrbanDevelopment #BlackCommunity #BreakingNews #AIDataCenter #CorporateGreed<\/p>\n<p>Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https:\/\/streamyard.com\/pal\/d\/5759717953503232<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999, a Texas farmer named Mr. Bland donated 87 acres of land to the City of Taylor,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lisa-cabrera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hqdefault-144.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}