Texas: Blueprint plans data center outside Austin, Texas

Taylor City Council last week granted unanimous approval to give Austin-based Blueprint Projects tax breaks on a proposed data center project in the city of Taylor.  The company plans to use land owned by the Taylor Economic Development Corp. at 1601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Williamson County, northeast of Austin. 
 

Blueprint would be required to invest at least $225 million and five jobs to qualify for a 10-year, 50 percent rebate of taxes on the tangible property for each phase of construction. A separate agreement with the city and TEDC provides a 50 percent rebate of the local use tax collected on materials used for construction. The agreement was reportedly known as “Project Sam.”

“We are honored and grateful to be partnering with the TEDC and the City of Taylor and to have been awarded incentives to build our data center in Taylor, Texas,” the company said in a statement to BJ, adding that they “look forward to supporting the city's rapid and exceptional growth story.”