The Daily Dig
Iron Mountain is targeting a new data center development in Williamson County, just outside Hutto, Texas. The project is called Taylor Meadows, and it came before the Hutto City Council through a sanitary sewer service request. The site runs roughly 500 acres along FM3349, north of Norman Crossing and south of Samsung's semiconductor plant in Taylor.
Plans call for up to seven data center buildings and an on-site substation. Grid-connected facilities are targeted for around 2030. The company is also looking at behind-the-meter natural gas to bring capacity online sooner.
The development will use a closed-loop cooling system. Iron Mountain noted the data centers would consume less water than a residential project previously proposed for part of the same site. The company currently operates roughly 415MW of colocation and hyperscale capacity across 21 markets in seven countries on three continents. Taylor Meadows would be its first data center development in Texas.
Project Snapshot:
Company / Platform: Iron Mountain
Project: Taylor Meadows data center development
Location: Outside Hutto, Williamson County, Texas
Site Size: About 500 acres
Buildings: Up to 7 planned
Capacity: Not disclosed
Power Strategy: Grid-connected delivery targeted around 2030; behind-the-meter natural gas under consideration
Infrastructure: On-site substation planned
Cooling: Closed-loop cooling system
Trigger / Action: Presentation to Hutto City Council tied to sanitary sewer service request
Site Positioning: Along FM3349, north of Norman Crossing, south of Samsung semiconductor plant in Taylor
Status: Proposed
Texas Footprint: Would be Iron Mountain's first data center development in Texas
TheJobWalk Thoughts
A sewer service request on a 500-acre site is not a headline, but it is a real signal. Local infrastructure approvals are where projects stop being announcements and start becoming work. This council presentation puts Taylor Meadows on the radar for early-stage tracking.
The dual power strategy is the part worth watching. When a developer is weighing behind-the-meter gas alongside grid delivery, they are usually trying to phase construction so that some buildings can come online before the 2030 grid commitments clear. For GCs and trade contractors in Central Texas, that kind of sequencing typically pushes early site, civil, and utility packages forward while later buildings sit on a longer procurement timeline.
Suppliers already tracking Samsung's Taylor ramp know this corridor is active. A seven-building campus from a first-time Texas entrant confirms the infrastructure appetite in this market is not letting up.
