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Data Center
Infrakey is working with the City of Lacy-Lakeview, north of Waco, to build a $10 billion data center. The project has drawn opposition from neighbors and raised the question of land use and water resources at the rural site near Ross.
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Texans want their local governments to push pause on data centers. Can they?
Texans from Waco to Harlingen are raising concerns about the energy and water data centers use. Local governments have a few tools to fight them – if they want to.
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Lacy Lakeview, Infrakey pitch their data center project at global tech summit in Hawaii
City and company officials presented their partnership plans at a conference that draws global power brokers in the tech industry.
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Lacy Lakeview offers special district as olive branch to rural neighbors of data center site
Lacy Lakeview leaders are offering a seat at the table to Ross and other communities near the Infrakey data center site through a special district.
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Town hall questions on Lake Whitney data center echo McLennan County debate
The project is a fraction of the size of the $10 billion data center that Infrakey is proposing for the Ross area in partnership with the city of Lacy Lakeview. But its impact is expected to be huge in rural Bosque County, which has a population of about 19,000.
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Three ways you can speak up this week on McLennan, Bosque data center projects
A string of meetings this week will offer a chance to learn and speak about local data center projects.
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School struggles, data centers, downtown visions and more: Six storylines we’re following in ’26
Amid optimism about Waco’s growth and opportunities, some worry about school takeovers and cuts to social safety net services.
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TSTC Waco’s star is on the rise with new funds, facilities: A Q&A with Beth Wooten
The state system opened its Waco job training center this year and is finishing a $72 million building at its flagship campus. New demand and new funding spells growth, says the Waco campus’ chief academic official.
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Water, power, politics: Three challenges for the $10B data center project
The Infrakey data center could bring huge tax wealth to Lacy Lakeview and McLennan County, but it would require huge resources.
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Tensions high with neighbors, city of Waco as Lacy Lakeview moves data center deal along
Opponents packed Lacy Lakeview City Hall but were not allowed to speak until after the vote for a nonbinding annexation and infrastructure agreement. Waco City Manager Bradley Ford attended and said it was “highly unusual” that Waco leaders were not notified of the plans.
