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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Sam Shaw, The Waco Bridge

A Texas town needs Waco’s help to realize its data center dreams. It’s not going well.

The Waco Bridge is a nonprofit local news organization supported by The Texas Tribune, reporting on Waco government, education and community. Sign up for the Bridge’s free newsletter here.

WACO — In the move-fast-and-break-things world of high tech, a global investment firm and small Central Texas town have joined a global race to build a hyperscale data center — in two years.

But that race may put them on a collision course with neighboring Waco, which holds power over infrastructure needed for the $10 billion project pushed by Infrakey and Lacy Lakeview.

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