{"id":47028,"date":"2025-11-12T22:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/47028\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T22:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:13:07","slug":"kdc-proposes-150-acre-data-center-in-taylor-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/47028\/","title":{"rendered":"KDC Proposes 150-Acre Data Center In Taylor, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KDC<\/a><\/p>\n

Dallas-based developer KDC<\/a> is seeking approval to construct a large data center<\/a> in Taylor, Texas, according to the Austin Business Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The project would involve turning a 220-acre parcel at 1051 County Road 401, directly northeast of Samsung Electronics Co.\u2019s factory, into a data center campus that would include space for other uses.<\/p>\n

Last year, KDC and\u00a0Austin<\/a>-based landowner Prophet Capital Management made a deal to develop 150 acres of the site. The developer will now go before local zoning officials to seek permission to move forward with its plans<\/p>\n

Some of the land earmarked for the plan is owned by CM Realty LLC, according to the ABJ.<\/p>\n

Taylor, Texas, which boasts a population of 17,000 and sits approximately 30 miles northeast of Austin in Williamson County, has become something of a hub for large companies. Tesla has a 183K SF rail-serviced facility at Taylor Logistics Park, and\u00a0Compal Electronics\u00a0has\u00a0600K SF of manufacturing space<\/a> spread across two industrial parks in Taylor and neighboring Georgetown.<\/p>\n

The greater Austin-San Antonio data center market saw the fourth-most positive absorption of data center space in the country, only behind Northern Virginia, Dallas and Chicago, according to JLL. In fact, the Austin-San Antonio region\u00a0has grown faster<\/a> than any other data center market in the last five years.<\/p>\n

That rapid expansion has come with growing local concern over such projects, however.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, a group of Taylor residents opposed the\u00a0$1B Blueprint Projects data center<\/a>. The Blueprint Projects plan calls for a 135K SF campus on 52 acres. Locals expressed concern about the proposed center\u2019s environmental impact and its location near residential property, among other things.<\/p>\n

In July, the Taylor City Council voted to allow the Blueprint data center to proceed. A subsequent lawsuit\u00a0from five Taylor landowners was dismissed in October.<\/p>\n

Legislators are increasingly examining ways to curb rising energy costs because of data center development. In June, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 6 into law<\/a>, which mandates large energy users like data centers to fund infrastructure upgrades and ensure grid reliability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas-based developer KDC is seeking approval to construct a large data center in Taylor, Texas, according to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,5421,27244,27,7458,2538],"class_list":["post-47028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-data-center","tag-kdc","tag-texas","tag-texas-governor-greg-abbott","tag-williamson-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}