Hutto, TX is a city in Williamson County north of Austin that has become a hub for data center development due to its proximity to major fiber optic routes and available electrical capacity.
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Skybox's PowerCampus Austin in Hutto, a 600 MW, 4-million-square-foot campus on 160 acres designed around an onsite privately owned Oncor substation, sits in the same policy window where cooling design and consumption disclosure will be checked against the new expectations before tax and interconnection assumptions hold.
In Hutto, Texas, Zydeco pitched a closed-loop system needing only a one-time 20,000 gallon fill, but residents still packed three hours of opposition testimony.
Hutto alone is drawing Zydeco Development (pivoting from a 173-unit apartment project to a 225,000-square-foot data center), plus Colovore and Iron Mountain.
Separately, Iron Mountain is planning its first Texas datacenter: a seven-building, 500-acre campus called Taylor Meadows near Hutto in Williamson County, targeting grid connection around 2030 with behind-the-meter natural gas generation as a bridge.