Cipher Digital has bought some 300 acres near Riesel and is seeking to connect to the state electric grid. Area residents and leaders say they remain in the dark about the details.
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Cracked streets and leaking pipes give Lacy Lakeview leaders headaches. They see data center dollars as the cure.
Lacy Lakeview struggled for years with tight budgets and deteriorating streets and utilities. The promise of $10 billion in tax base from the Infrakey project looked like a once-in-a-lifetime solution. A photo essay.
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Waco is putting Sanger Avenue on “road diet” near Tennyson Middle School. Here’s what that means.
The $1.3 million project will slim an eight-block section of the street from four lanes to three and add bike lanes in an effort to make travel safer and smoother.
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Waco council to vote on $50M+ contribution to I-35 big box development
The public-private partnership would develop a 252-acre parcel alongside at Highway 6 and bring national retailers to the vacant tract. In return, Waco estimates $105 million in private retail development.
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Lacy Lakeview needs Waco’s help to realize its data center dreams. It’s not going well.
Lacy Lakeview’s hasty approach to the data center project has alienated the Waco officials who would control water service to the site.
“Without the City of Waco agreeing to it, Lacy Lakeview can’t do anything out there and neither can Infrakey,” State Rep. Pat Curry said. “Those guys don’t know what the hell they’re doing.”
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A storied Waco school falls to bulldozers, but the stories will remain
An effort to preserve the history of the school originally known as Jefferson-Moore High proceeds as the 54-year-old campus is cleared for the Barron’s Branch development.
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Sign up now for the Waco Bridge’s Data Center Impacts event
Join The Waco Bridge on May 28 at MCC’s Cameron Hall for a conversation with McLennan County Judge Scott Felton; data center expert Dr. Margaret Cook of Houston Advanced Research Center; and Environment Texas’ Luke Metzger, a leading expert on state environmental policy. The Waco Bridge thanks its partners: McLennan Community College and Heart of Texas Goodwill.
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See results from city and school races in McLennan County
Preliminary results show a losses for incumbents in Lacy Lakeview and China Spring ISD and re-election for a Bellmead council member.
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Voters reelect Holmes as Waco mayor, Barefield as council member
Barefield fought off a challenge from economic development official Rachel E. Pate, while Mayor Holmes won 83% of the vote. And Lacy Lakeview elected a data center opponent.
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Ready to vote in Saturday’s local school and city elections? Read our guide first.
Contested elections are scheduled in Waco, Bellmead and Lacy Lakeview, as well as China Spring Independent School District.