An industrial park in Hutto, a fast-growing suburb northeast of Austin, is poised to add another major technology project later this year.
Colovore, a California-based artificial intelligence data center developer, officially filed plans with the state for a $250 million data center, roughly two years after initially announcing plans to enter the Austin market.
Construction on the nearly 200,000-square-foot center - roughly the size of the Austin Central Library - will begin in December next door to the Hutto Crossing site that may soon be home to a proposed Blue Origin manufacturing campus.
Jeff Bezos' aerospace company is considering a manufacturing campus at the same business park, at 2401 Innovation Blvd.
Hutto and Williamson County have approved initial tax breaks to attract the Amazon founder's space venture to the area. Blue Origin is shopping for a new advanced manufacturing hub, with the Austin area and Florida under consideration. The company is reportedly waiting on possible incentive agreements with the state.
Blue Origin's manufacturing operations would create roughly 2,000 new jobs in the city, with its possible plant located roughly 11 miles west of Samsung Electronics' soon-to-be-online chip factory in nearby Taylor.
Colovore's Hutto data center will a cpaacity of 40 megawatts - enough to power roughly 8,000 Texas homes during peak summer demand, and will use liquid-based cooling. The one-story data center will have about five data halls and is anticipated to be completed by the end of 2028, according to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing.
Williamson County has attracted several major industrial developments. As Austin's available land grows crowded, companies are looking to the nearby county for larger factory and data center operations.
Massive construction is taking place further east on Texas 79, where a development known as the Hutto Megasite is beginning to take shape. The 1,400-acre site near Samsung's Taylor plant will soon be home to several large operational data centers as well as technology manufacturing projects.
A data center supplier is also planning to create 200 to 300 new jobs with a recently opened manufacturing plant the city.
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This article originally published at Colovore plans $250 million AI data center in Hutto industrial park that may house Blue Origin.