Taylor City Council to vote on controversial data center, power plant project

Taylor City Council will vote on a proposed data center campus after developers pledged $28.2 million for parks, schools and other community projects.

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District 4 Council Member Heather Long listens to public comment during a Taylor City Council Meeting, July 9, 2026.

Community members have packed Taylor City Council meetings for months as at least five data centers are planned for the town of about 18,000 residents.

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Taylor City Council is set to vote on an economic development agreement with Big Watt Digital LLC and PowerHouse Data Centers for a 660-acre data center and power plant campus in the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction.

The proposed Taylor Technology Campus project includes $28.2 million in community investments and nonprofit support, with promises of funding for parks, education, scholarships, and workforce development.

Community opposition in Taylor has raised concerns about industrialization, unmet growth promises, and the impact of data centers on quality of life, amid a broader debate over the rapid growth of the data center industry in Texas.

See more A controversial data center project is back before Taylor leaders this week after community opposition initially pushed the development outside city limits.

Taylor City Council is scheduled to vote Thursday on an economic development agreement with South Dakota-based Big Watt Digital LLC and Virginia-based PowerHouse Data Centers as the pair plan to build a more than 660-acre data center and power plant campus in the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction.

The Taylor Technology Campus, formerly nicknamed Project Mustang, will include 500 megawatts of data center power capacity with the option to add another 500 megawatts in a future project, according to the proposed agreement.

The site would be powered by its own natural gas-fired power plant that could sell power back to the grid.