{"id":687580,"date":"2026-03-28T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/687580\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:35:21","slug":"taylor-approves-land-annexation-for-kdc-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/687580\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor approves land annexation for KDC data center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAYLOR, Texas \u2014 Despite some residents not wanting a data center to come to Taylor, Texas, the city council unanimously approved annexing about 48 acres of land into its jurisdiction Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Residents raised concerns about the $2.5 billion data center in November. Dubbed Project Comal, some feared the center could negatively impact the traffic, health and environment of the area.<\/p>\n<p>Council members approved and rezoned the acres of land, in addition to approving an employment center for Oncor.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/business\/technology\/article\/taylor-data-center-samsung-22153681.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin American-Statesman<\/a>, the proposed site will measure 220 acres total and belongs to Dallas-based developer KDC, which \u201cplans to build at least six large industrial buildings on its data center campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Statesman also reported that the data center, located next to Samsung Electronics\u2019 1,200-acre chip plant, is anticipated to garner over $140 million in revenue and over $70 million to Taylor ISD over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, this isn\u2019t about data centers,\u201d Rachael\u00a0Westerman, Taylor Chamber of Commerce membership and operations director, said at the meeting. \u201cIt\u2019s about what allows us to build together a stronger economy and more vibrant business community and brighter futures for our families.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAYLOR, Texas \u2014 Despite some residents not wanting a data center to come to Taylor, Texas, the city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":687581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,359,202676,1596,425,50,13570,158,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,40466],"class_list":["post-687580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-austin","tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","tag-dallas","tag-local","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-technology","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-williamson-county"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116306125468876967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}