April 9, 2026
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Nine Months to Shape the Rules Texas Is About to Write
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.
April 8, 2026
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Texas Built Its Tax Break for Yesterday's Data Center Market
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.
March 19, 2026
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Communities Aren't Anti-Datacenter. They're Anti-Surprise.
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.