Residents of another small Central Texas city are pushing back against a proposed data center coming to their neighborhood. Zydeco Development, a commercial real estate firm based in Austin, is seeking to build a data center in Hutto, a town about 27 miles north of Austin.
The property, located at 450 Ed Schmidt Blvd., is currently zoned as a Planned Unit Development (PUD) specifically for residential and mixed-use retail projects. Zydeco is now requesting the city’s approval to rezone the site to allow heavy industrial use in order to begin construction on the data center.
Hutto’s Planning and Zoning Commission held a meeting on Tuesday, April 7, where dozens of locals packed City Hall to hear a presentation from Zydeco and share their concerns. This comes as small Texas towns continue to worry about running out of water, and Hutto residents reported wastewater issues earlier this year, including discolored water stemming from increased water pressure stirring up natural iron deposits in the system…